Thomas Haller <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 11:46 +0200, Jelle Licht wrote:
> [snip]
> But the daemon runs as root, so setting NM_VPN_PLUGIN_DIR requires you
> to become root, to restart the daemon, and to set the environment
> variable (in the systemd service file). At that point, you could just
> as well copy the .name file to /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN. Why is that
> not sufficient?
As you say, we do set NM_VPN_PLUGIN_DIR for our networkmanager daemon.
I was trying to have networkmanager vpn plugins simply work for Guix
System, which does not follow FHS. As such, there is no `/usr/lib` to
speak of, or any of the other default locations networkmanager looks in.
Put another way, do you know of a way to pass vpn plugin locations to NM
at runtime?
>> + file = g_file_new_for_path (conf_dir_user);
>> + priv->monitor_etc = g_file_monitor_directory (file,
>> G_FILE_MONITOR_NONE, NULL, NULL);
>> + g_object_unref (file);
>> + if (priv->monitor_etc) {
>
> btw, you cannot overwrite the existing monitor_etc and monitor_id_etc
> fields. It would require new ones...
Thanks for explaining this.
- Jelle
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