On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 16:31 -0800, Greg Suarez wrote: > On Feb 24, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 16:10 -0800, Greg Suarez wrote: > >> On Feb 24, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 16:34 -0800, Greg Suarez wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I'm writing a program to manage wifi profiles and wish to communicate > >>>> the Connection objects to the NetworkManager. > >>>> I can't seem to find documentation on the communication between the > >>>> NetworkManager the the program providing the user settings. > >>>> Can someone point me to where I can get this information or describe > >>>> what I need to do? > >>> > >>> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec-08.html > >>> > >>> you're looking for anything that starts with: > >>> > >>> org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings > >>> > >>> Both the system settings and user settings services implement this D-Bus > >>> interface. Essentially, your program needs to respond to the > >>> ListConnections method with an array of the object paths of it's > >>> Connection objects. Then it also implements the GetSettings method for > >>> each of those connection objects so NM can get the actual connection > >>> details. You'll also want to implement the .Secrets interface there so > >>> that NM can get network passwords. Let me know if more you need more > >>> explanation. > >>> > >>> Dan > >>> > >>> > >> Thanks Dan, > >> > >> Would my program need to request the dbus name > >> org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings or can I use another name? > >> If I need to use org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings wouldn't that > >> interfere with nm-applet? > > > > Yes, your program needs to request the > > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings bus name if you wish to be a > > user settings service. And yes, if nm-applet already has that name, you > > can't get it. > > > > You'd said "I'm writing a program to manage wifi profiles and wish to > > communicate the Connection objects to the NetworkManager.", which I took > > to mean that you wanted to write your own settings service to provide > > network connection data to NM. > > > > If you want to co-exist with nm-applet, that's not very easy right now > > because for security reasons, only one user settings service is allowed > > to provide network connection data to NetworkManager. If any process > > could do it, there'd be nothing to stop trojan horse programs from doing > > it too, or from reading your passwords, etc. > > > > We hope to fix this in the future by providing the full D-Bus interface > > in the user settings service, which would allow other programs to > > manipulate the connection data. That needs more work in the UI though > > to alert users to the program that is requesting their passwords or > > modifying network settings, and allow the user to either approve the > > other program, deny it, etc. > > > > If I write a program similar to the nm-connection-editor and add a new > connection in gconf would nm-applet see the new connection > and prompt for security credentials?
Yeah, just adding the connection to GConf in the manner which nm-applet expects would do the trick. Look in the applet's sources in src/gconf-helpers/ to see how it translates the NMSetting keys to various GConf values. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
