On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:08 -0600, Chris Hessing wrote: > Hi All, > > I found this URL > http://osdir.com/ml/networkmanager-list/2009-07/msg00035.html that > described how to set up a system level configuration for Network > Manager. It was extremely helpful in getting some code in Qt to do > the same thing. However, now I want to be able to set up the same > type of configuration using a user level configuration (for the > current user running my program). > > I have tried the obvious solution of sending to > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings, but I get an error back > that seems to indicate I have violated a rule about who is allowed to > create connections for the user profile. The error is : > > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 > matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.1160" (uid=1000 > pid=16983 comm="/usr/bin/python ./addconn_orig ") > interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.System" > member="AddConnection" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 > destination=":1.27" (uid=1000 pid=3243 comm="nm-applet --sm-disable > "))
At the moment, for the Gnome applet, you cannot add/remove/update connections via D-Bus. That's because I haven't figured out a way yet to allow access to the secrets (wep & wpa keys, passwords, etc) without circumventing the Keyring's access control mechanisms. These mechanisms are meant to ensure the user knows exactly which programs are accessing their passwords, and to allow/deny access to secrets. If we just let any program update a connection over dbus, then the keyring requests would look like they were coming from nm-applet, and thus obscure the *real* program that was trying to access the keyring. So that's the only thing blocking add/update/delete via D-Bus for the gnome applet. > Is there any way, short of changing the rules, to have another program > set up a connection on a stock Ubuntu distro? You can use gconftool-2 to import the connection details (minus secrets) directly to GConf, which the applet will then pick up. You can also use gconftool-2 to export existing connections to XML. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
