On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 12:11 -0700, Drew Moseley wrote: > What is the best way to have NetworkManager/nm-applet __not__ request > wireless secrets? We have a scenario where we are attempting to connect to > the network and we do not have a user at the system. In this scenario we > just want to fail this particular connection without marking the connection > as bad. We want to attempt another connection with the same secrets later, > ala background polling.
You use system connections instead of user connections. System connections are "trusted" (ie, they should be readable only by root so secrets are not leaked) and thus the secrets are always available to NetworkManager. The system settings service has a "keyfile" plugin that you can enable that knows how to read/write all NM connection types. Most of the distro-specific plugins that scrape the distro file formats don't yet write those back out, so you wouldn't be able to easily update/add them via D-Bus. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
