Re: What is needed for NetworkManager and WPA2 Enterprise?

[Andrew Zaborowski <andrew zaborowski intel com>]

Hi Paul,

On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 at 11:43, Paul Menzel <pmenzel molgen mpg de> wrote:
> Could you please talk to the NetworkManager folks, what you need? I
> created the issue *Extend D-Bus API for iwd and WPA2 Enterprise* in
> their GitLab instance [2] for that.

I replied to that issue but provisioning EAP networks other than
through the config files is not currently on IWD's todo list.  You
didn't really explain your use case.  The logic is that the user
shouldn't have to touch that configuration, it should be enough for
them or their admin to drop the network's configuration file into
/var/lib/iwd.  There is specific code in the NM iwd-backend to make
sure no extra NM-side configuration is required after this is done
correctly.

Note that IWD config files currently contain paths to other files,
specifically the certificates and private keys.  There is intention to
allow our config files to directly encode the contents of those files
instead, so you network admin can generate just that one file or
provide a way for you to generate it.  We also do already have a way
to use mac/iphone-compatible network config files.

Best regards