On Thursday 27 of January 2011 13:46:14 Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 17:34 +0530, Jos Collin-ERS,HCLTech wrote: > > Thanks a lot, Bastien. I will work on that. > > > > I found that the GetSettings doesn't give the encryption key. I have > > tried GetSecrets function also, to see where the key is stored, but > > how ever there is no function to set the secrets. > > My guess is that this functionality is only available through the native > APIs. seahorse (the gnome-keyring manager) can change this, so there's > most certainly a way. >
Yeah, you can browse and change secrets via seahorse GUI for user connections, because nm-applet uses gnome-keyring for secrets storage. Note especially the 'Details' tab in secret properties, that shows you which settings name and key the particular password belongs to. E.g. for a WiFi WPA password, there will be: setting-key: psk setting-name: 802-11-wireless-security On the other hand, system connection plugins store secrets to their specific locations, mostly plain files that you can edit. When you want to get secrets via D-Bus, you have to call GetSecrets() method, because GetSetting() doesn't list the secrets for security reasons. Only root is allowed to call GetSecrets(). Example for a WiFi WEP connection: sudo dbus-send --system --print-reply -- dest='org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings' '/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/19' org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Connection.Secrets.GetSecrets string:802-11-wireless-security array:string:wep-key0 boolean:false The first argument says which settings you want secrets from. The second argument is the array of keys you require. There is no specific D-Bus call to change secrets. You should use Update() method to provide all settings including the new secrets. The secrets are specified as key:value pairs in the correponding settings (the key and setting- name in seahorse). I've added an python change-secrets example here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/python/update- secrets.py Jirka _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
