[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#594849: Bug#594849: network-manager: Missing information about how to create a system-level connection

[Michael Biebl]

On 30.08.2010 07:46, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.8.1-2+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> I wanderred though n-m documentation and noticed that there is a
> system-level way to configure network connections, in order to avoid
> doing it for each and every user of the machine.
> 
> I suspect this should go in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections,
> but how?
> 
> README says:
> "the system settings service stores it's config in distro-specific
> formats, or in a distro- agnostic format, depending on
> user/administrator preference."
> 
> But what is this format? An example in /usr/share/doc/n-m/examples
> would probably be enough...
> 

Hi Christian,

are you asking for general information how system settings work or very
specific, how the keyfile format for system settings is specified?

For the former, see NetworkManager.conf(5) resp
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings

For the keyfile specification see
http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/settings-spec-08.html

I could install docs/settings-spec.html and docs/spec.html from the tarball if
you consider that useful. I just wonder if that should be shipped in the
network-manager package itself, or one of the -dev packages.

Cheers,
Michael


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