On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:15:53 PM Tom H wrote: >> >> I've never used nmcli except to get ip information (see below) but >> setting up NM without a gui is simple. >> >> This is my home wifi setup: >> >> # cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/thsky >> [connection] >> id=thsky >> uuid=e03d75e4-043a-4276-bf03-3995270ec891 >> type=802-11-wireless >> >> [802-11-wireless] >> ssid=myssidname >> mode=infrastructure >> security=802-11-wireless-security >> >> [802-11-wireless-security] >> key-mgmt=wpa-psk >> psk=myssidpassword >> >> [ipv4] >> method=manual >> address1=192.168.1.11/24,192.168.1.1 >> dns=192.168.1.111 >> >> [ipv6] >> method=link-local > > Did you find that documented somewhere or did you use an UI to create the file > originally? What about when you need one of the many features that this simple > example doesn't cover (like permissions)? what is the guid? It is hard.
I first started creating these connections by reading a page on freedesktop.org that had the same info as what you now get with "man nm-settings". The latter might even have existed at the time... I haven't tested this in a while but in the past you needed one of id and uuid. The uuid is easily generated with "uuidgen". > When I started using NetworkManager I had hell trying to modify that file > manually because plasma-nm ask for root password when modifying system wide > connections but it doesn't save the changes (the solution was to run nm- > connection-editor manually as root). The same applies to nmtui and it only > covers a few options. I don't remember exactly what needed to be changed in > the file but it wasn't intuitive. There's a famous rant by Linus about having to provide the root password in order to join a network. I've never used KDE so I have no idea about which gui applet to use and how/why settings are saved and I've never used nmtui but I suspect (unless it was a specific NM bug at the time) that it was a problem with the polkit settings like Linus' problem.
