All,
Two issues in this mail.
1) Trouble starting VPN via "nmcli con up uuid"
2) "nmcli con" not showing a connection setup via nm-applet under vncserver. I
typed nmcli both as root and regular user. Why? Presumably some permission is
failing. How do I fix it?
Reg 1:
Dan, Thanks. I did what you said. It is not working, with NetworkManager
thinking there is no network connectivity. I definitely have network
connectivity as I am able to ping Google. But, NetworkManager is not
understanding it. This network connectivity is coming up at startup on eth0
due to legacy Redhat scripts (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0). When
I do
nmcli con up uuid <uuid>
I get this error: Error: No suitable device found: no active connection or
device.
How do I get NetworkManager to realize there is a connection or override it's
connection availability checking? NetworkManager-0.8.4-1.fc14.i686
Can you help? Thanks.
NetworkManager.conf reads:
[main]
plugins=ifcfg-rh,keyfile
--Mohan
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From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
To: Mohan Sfo <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: NetworkManager from command line
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 14:11 -0700, Mohan Sfo wrote:
>
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> Hi all,
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> Could you show me how to setup a PPTP VPN via NetworkManager via
> command line? What files need to be edited, what commands need to be
> run?
At the moment, VPN connections can be configured manually by editing
'keyfile' connection files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections. A
sample PPTP keyfile is as follows:
[connection]
id=Sample PPTP
uuid=2b88c363-f97e-4e76-9ee6-8b9bb136e75b
type=vpn
autoconnect=false
[vpn]
service-type=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp
gateway=1.1.1.1
user=dcbw
password=myspace
[ipv4]
method=auto
You can change various other options. One way to do that is to run
nm-connection-editor on a machine with a GUI and set up the connection,
then copy the connection file when you've got it set up right.
Dan
>
> Also, does it allow any user who logged in to modify the network
> configuration? Is there a way to restrict who can modify the network?
> I was very susprised that a non-root user was able to change routing
> parameters.
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>
> Thanks,
> Mohan
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