On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:03 +0200, Bjorge Solli wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 08:42 +0200, Bjorge Solli wrote: > >> Next Q: Can I find the settings files somewhere and copy it to another > >> user, preferrably also scripting a username change? > > > > The username that gets sent (unless overridden) is the current user's > > name. So you can either leave it blank, or override the default. > > If I try to remove the username NM-applet doesn't save the change and > leaves the field as before. A bug? > > > The connection can be dumped out of GConf using [1] once you know the > > connection's path, which you could find with gconf-editor, then you can > > import [2] that connection on the other person's machine. Make sure you > > use a unique gconf path when importing though so you don't arbitrarily > > overwrite what's on the new person's machine. > <...> > > [1] gconftool-2 --dump /system/networking/connections/3 > vpn.xml > > > > [2] gconftool-2 --load dump.xml /system/networking/connections/999 > > This would be perfect! But are you sure about that path? I dont't have a > /system/networking folder at all.
If you've already set up the connection with nm-connection-editor and hit "Save" then you should have that GConf directory... If you run gconf-editor, can you drill down to that path? Note that this should be done as your _user_, not as root. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
