Re: disabling polkit?

2008-07-18 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 14:02 +0100, Steve wrote: the pam/policy kit stuff. JFYI, usage of PAM is optional in PolicyKit: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PolicyKit]$ ./configure --help|grep authfw --with-authfw=nameAuthentication framework (none/pam/shadow) David

Re: settings daemon D-Bus interface proposal

2007-02-23 Thread David Zeuthen
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:03 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: So, the ID is about identifying the connection and is a hint that a client should or should not reply to NeedInfo. The cookie (bad name probably) is a way to make sure they can't. s/connection/transaction/ fwiw. Perhaps it would be nicer

Re: settings daemon D-Bus interface proposal

2007-02-23 Thread David Zeuthen
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 11:38 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Tambet had proposed a system where the client would push all its config info to NM when it started up. I assume it would then push updates to NM when GConf changes (or whatever KDE uses) occurred, and would fetch and return secrets on

Re: settings daemon D-Bus interface proposal

2007-02-20 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, So I have one beef with this proposal and that is that it builds upon the same idea of a NetworkManagerInfo-ish service. As you might know, one of the features we're doing for Fedora 7 is fast user switching; it's basically done with what we have in Rawhide. There's one slight problem with

Re: OpenVPN gui change

2007-02-15 Thread David Zeuthen
=== --- ChangeLog (revision 2321) +++ ChangeLog (working copy) @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-02-15 David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * nm-openvpn.desktop.in: Use NoDisplay=true since only reason for + the desktop is to setup a MIME type association (similar to #333854) + 2007-02-02

Re: openvpn needs more settings

2006-10-02 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 15:02 +1300, Steve Wray wrote: How about giving the option to pull in a regular, normal openvpn config file and stuff that into the NetworkManager settings? That would be just brilliant... Or even just to get NetworkManager to point at an openvpn config file (under

Re: Bluetooth and HAL (Was Re: PPTP Plugin Updated -- Ver. 0.6.9 Generally PPP capable?)

2006-07-10 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, Sorry for the lag, On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 18:54 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: and attached is a patch against the latest kernel that represents every Bluetooth low-level connection (ACL and SCO) as device under the parent device that represents the Bluetooth host controller. Very cool,

Re: [RFC] HAL/Bluez integration

2006-06-16 Thread David Zeuthen
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 21:45 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: I've put a tarball up at http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/hal-bluetooth.tar.gz as a first attempt at some degree of integration. Cool. The current interface is basically: 1) Bluetooth HCIs support a Scan method. Calling this

Re: Bluetooth and HAL (Was Re: PPTP Plugin Updated -- Ver. 0.6.9 Generally PPP capable?)

2006-06-16 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, Sorry for the lag, I was on vacation traveling Friday through Wednesday. On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 18:45 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: Hi David, So the missing pieces are to link other Bluetooth kernel services like RFCOMM, HID, BNEP or CAPI with the Bluetooth adapter. I haven't come

Bluetooth and HAL (Was Re: PPTP Plugin Updated -- Ver. 0.6.9 Generally PPP capable?)

2006-06-08 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, (adding the HAL list as Cc) On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 14:00 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: I planned on mirroring bluetooth information in hal, rather than leaving it up to applications to query bluez directly. There's two reasons for this: Be careful how you do the mirroring. We

Re: Bluetooth and HAL (Was Re: PPTP Plugin Updated -- Ver. 0.6.9 Generally PPP capable?)

2006-06-08 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 17:36 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: So the missing pieces are to link other Bluetooth kernel services like RFCOMM, HID, BNEP or CAPI with the Bluetooth adapter. I haven't come up the best approach to do this right. The obvious problem is if you have a /dev/rfcomm0 device

Re: PPTP Plugin Updated -- Ver. 0.6.9 Generally PPP capable?

2006-06-06 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:40 +0200, Tim Niemueller wrote: Cesar Cardoso schrieb: 2006/6/2, Antony J Mee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is a totally general PPPD plugin... So I imagine that now we can believe that in some time in the future NM will make those dialers (gkdial,

Re: [patch] don't restart applet.

2006-01-31 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 13:01 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 12:44 -0500, Robert Love wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 12:38 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: So with this patch, what happens when the applet dies for some reason (admittedly shouldn't happen)? Does it just fail to

Re: password keyring for vpn - kde

2006-01-06 Thread David Zeuthen
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:08 -0500, Robert Love wrote: libgnome-keyring should run the daemon if needed -- would be a nice feature. In my view, it should just use D-BUS and activation on the session bus. Of course, this only reduces the problem to getting vendors to spawn the session message

Re: DBUS API documentation strategies?

2005-12-08 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 11:35 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: Hi, So in the interest of making NM easier to use, does anyone have suggestions on exactly how to document the DBUS APIs that NetworkManager exposes? Can we do this automatically with doxygen or somesuch? Since the dbus calls aren't

Re: Static ip configuration

2005-11-30 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 22:07 -0700, Haripriya S wrote: Will it be a good thing to have a way to invoke the distribution-specific tool (system-config-network, YaST, whatever) to configure the network adapters from nm-applet? I have used netapplet before and that allows it. Also, nm-applet

Re: Ubuntu Suspend w/ Ethernet Cable Plugged in

2005-11-17 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:07 -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote: A nice feature of 'hibernate' is that it lets you run hook scripts during the suspend and resume process using the 'OnSuspend' and 'OnResume' directives in the hibernate.conf. Sorry for sounding like a broken record, but ideally suspend

Re: OpenVPN Questions

2005-11-16 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 10:00 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: All settings are saved in gconf. Passwords will be saved in gnome-keyring. Will this work for kde users? Out of the box it should work for KDE users [1]. Also, the whole architecture of NetworkManager and it's VPN subsystem is

Re: OpenVPN Questions

2005-11-15 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:59 +0100, Tim Niemueller wrote: * skdaz.conf: Note that the OpenVPN-plug-in does _not_ read OpenVPN-config files but rather uses some special ini files that contain the information needed. I will put up some documentation on this with next check-in. The reason why I

Re: OpenVPN Questions

2005-11-15 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:50 +0100, Tim Niemueller wrote: David Zeuthen wrote: I haven't looked at your code but I sounds like you are advocating configuration files in e.g. /etc or ~/.local/etc (I could be wrong though) and I think this is not something we want. Think of the benefits

Re: OpenVPN in NM CVS.

2005-11-14 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 15:04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *general question regaring vpn plugins, do i have to restart NetworkManager to make new plugins available? To work well, you'll need a patch for D-BUS posted to the D-BUS list Nov 2 but for some reason not committed yet [1]. I will

Re: Run a script when connection goes down?

2005-11-07 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 13:31 +0100, Martin Høy wrote: Hello all, At my company, we place a lot of common software on NFS-shares. These shares are mounted, and the directories placed in $PATH when the clients are connected to our network. The trouble begins when someone disconnects their

Re: disabling keyring

2005-10-25 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 20:17 +0200, Éric Brunet wrote: So, for all the people unhappy with this keyring fonctionnality, I have made a patch that restores the old behaviour of storing the network keys in gconf. You will find the patch at http://tudia.nerim.net/nm/ with a binary rpm built for

Re: NM with VPN using multiple authentication modes

2005-10-03 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 20:46 +0530, Ramu wrote: Hi list, Was perusing the latest HEAD for integrating a VPN service with NM, Noticed that as of now, there is just a provision of spawning one auth-dialog for getting authentication credentials. Interesting - what kind of VPN software? But

Re: OpenVPN support

2005-07-30 Thread David Zeuthen
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 19:29 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: Pierre Ossman wrote: Come to think of it, I actually have a couple right now: :) Ah, sorry, I saw this when I got to OLS last week but I forgot to reply. * Wouldn't it be better to move routing settings out from the plugins.

Re: 2 questions...

2005-07-25 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 16:54 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: no offense intended, but I still disagree with that design choice. It means you cannot use NM in a situation where you have wireless network and network-based login (e.g. Kerberos/Hesiod, NIS, etc). In the current design you have to

Re: OpenVPN support

2005-07-19 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 19:46 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: I've been meaning to fill out http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/NetworkManager/vpn-daemons/README?rev=1.1view=markup at some point, right now it only says The API for the VPN extensions points should be mentioned here :-). Give

Re: [patch] don't display very-low-strength APs.

2005-07-11 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:10 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: Before I patched the cisco driver to fix wireless strength (which got accepted and applied to 2.6.12), they all showed 0 strength too. IIRC the airo driver showed 100% before your fix but that of course is worthless if the ipw2200 driver

Re: Repair function

2005-06-27 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:52 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: *shrugs* I can't defend their choice, but it makes sense if the standard usage is a quazi-static location. MIT doesn't support mobility, per se, so to move from one location to another you need to re-run DHCP. Most OSes rerun DHCP on

Re: Repair function

2005-06-27 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:17 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Quoting David Zeuthen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually the suspend scripts I'm looking to put in Fedora Core does exactly this (RH #155613). Here's a snippet from suspend # Tell NetworkManager to shut down networking dbus

Re: [patch] first pass at gnome-keyring support, baby.

2005-06-23 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 10:33 -0400, Bill Peck wrote: Is there a technical reason why the keyring can't be unlocked by the login? (Obviously the passwords would have to be the same) I know I'm thinking in fairy land where we might have single sign on one day.. but I can dream can't I? The hack

Re: NetworkManager, Wireless and Fedora FC4

2005-06-23 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:27 -0400, Ray Hooker wrote: Very interesting. Here it is: ** (process:3268): CRITICAL **: nm_vpnc_config_write: assertion 'num_passwords = 2' failed /usr/sbin/vpnc: missing IPSec gatway address ** (process:3267): WARNING **: WARNING (): vpnc exited with error

Re: dhcdbd: Failed to initialise D-Bus service

2005-06-21 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 09:22 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: David Zeuthen has been thinking about doing this automatically with gamin/fam, which would be a good thing. This is something that dbus doesn't do very well right now. Actually it's D_NOTIFY (phear me!). And it's in D-BUS 0.34 already

Re: NetworkManager, Wireless and Fedora FC4

2005-06-17 Thread David Zeuthen
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:22 -0400, Ray Hooker wrote: So would you recommend updating to a newer version? The NetworkManagerInfo does bring up the icon.. which is really great. I was able to connect just fine. I also installed the vpnc from the extras but don't see it on the taskbar icon.

Re: NetworkManager-vpnc package for Fedora Rawhide

2005-06-17 Thread David Zeuthen
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:36 +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote: David Zeuthen wrote: Don't use bash syntax in rpm's .spec files... I think it should be %{vpnc_version}. I've fixed this in the spec file. Thanks. David ___ NetworkManager-list mailing

Re: [patch] more stetic, broken up, 2/2

2005-06-17 Thread David Zeuthen
Hey, So while we're talking about UI and stuff how about combining the Right and Left click context menus? I always end up pressing the wrong one. David ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org

NetworkManager-vpnc package for Fedora Rawhide

2005-06-16 Thread David Zeuthen
Hey, Here's a first attempt at packaging NetworkManager-vpnc for Fedora Rawhide. You'll need the NetworkManager-0.4-30.cvs20050615 that Dan uploaded yesterday as well as vpnc-0.3.3-1 from Fedora Extras. I hope I got the Requires: right to require this :-). Download RPM and SRPM here

VPN import and export committed

2005-06-16 Thread David Zeuthen
Hey, I just committed a bunch of code for handling the import, and also now export, of VPN data. There's some churn in the API's so you need to build and install both NetworkManager and NetworkManager-vpnc in that order (and install the latter before building the latter). You also want to run

Re: VPN changes has landed (Was Re: NetworkManager-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 13)

2005-06-12 Thread David Zeuthen
Hi, (please edit the subject when replying from digest and please avoid to top post. Thanks.) On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 18:38 +0200, Anders stling wrote: Hi Quick question; is a prompt for Domain included in the VPN properties? I have a vague memory of seeing only username and password in the

Re: HAL 0.5.x networking

2005-06-08 Thread David Zeuthen
(adding NM list to the CC) On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:40 -0700, Sean Meiners wrote: Then you might want to consider removing the interface_up key since it's pretty much useless without a monitor behind it. Well, net.interface_up is merely whether the interface is up or not - it's pretty

Re: Cisco VPN config files converter

2005-05-26 Thread David Zeuthen
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 19:16 -0400, Bill Moss wrote: A couple of points about decoding encrypted Cisco Group passwords (Secrets). 1. Anyone with an early version of the Cisco VPN client (4.0.3.B) can do the conversion without using the web site. All the web site does is automate the

Re: Cisco VPN config files converter

2005-05-26 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:49 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: Also note that if we need not rely on an external web-service to decode the group password in .PCF files which in my personal opinion is a grey legal area (this mail is legal advice though). Bah, this mail is *not* legal advice, sorry

Re: [patch] nm-vpn-properties

2005-05-24 Thread David Zeuthen
Bill Moss pointed out some missing parts in my patch (I missed a file etc.) so I've put an updated version here http://people.redhat.com/davidz/nm-vpn-properties-2.patch Cheers, David ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list

Re: Cisco VPN config files converter

2005-05-24 Thread David Zeuthen
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 23:12 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Heya, As I didn't fancy entering all this data by hand in GConf, and that I realised I couldn't write Perl to save my life, I wrote this little C program to parse .PCF files from the Cisco VPN Client, and feed the data into GConf.

Re: Cisco VPN config files converter

2005-05-24 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:04 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote: Can we just import them automatically on the first run of this dialog. I think that the problem here is that the .PCF files are not stored anywhere on the machine. Users simply have a vpnc.conf that some sysadmin cooked up for them. Do

Re: [patch] nm-vpn-properties

2005-05-24 Thread David Zeuthen
Here's a slightly newer version http://people.redhat.com/davidz/nm-vpn-properties-3.patch Cheers, David ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: hal net.80203.link bug

2005-01-26 Thread David Zeuthen
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 20:56 -0500, Bill Moss wrote: FC3 kernel-2.6.10-1.741 hal 0.4.7.1 dbus 0.22-10 e1000 driver for Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller ipw2200-0.21 driver for Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG setup: network service turned off, eth0 onboot=no (wired) eth1

Re: MII-less network card support

2005-01-26 Thread David Zeuthen
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 00:35 +0100, Tom Parker wrote: I've managed to figure out how to fix my problems, and it may also help some of the other people with issues re: net.80203.link. HAL appears to have undergone some considerable changes (e.g. what looks like the start of a complete rewrite