On Feb 24, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 16:10 -0800, Greg Suarez wrote: >> On Feb 24, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Dan Williams wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 16:34 -0800, Greg Suarez wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm writing a program to manage wifi profiles and wish to communicate >>>> the Connection objects to the NetworkManager. >>>> I can't seem to find documentation on the communication between the >>>> NetworkManager the the program providing the user settings. >>>> Can someone point me to where I can get this information or describe >>>> what I need to do? >>> >>> http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec-08.html >>> >>> you're looking for anything that starts with: >>> >>> org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings >>> >>> Both the system settings and user settings services implement this D-Bus >>> interface. Essentially, your program needs to respond to the >>> ListConnections method with an array of the object paths of it's >>> Connection objects. Then it also implements the GetSettings method for >>> each of those connection objects so NM can get the actual connection >>> details. You'll also want to implement the .Secrets interface there so >>> that NM can get network passwords. Let me know if more you need more >>> explanation. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> >> Thanks Dan, >> >> Would my program need to request the dbus name >> org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings or can I use another name? >> If I need to use org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings wouldn't that >> interfere with nm-applet? > > Yes, your program needs to request the > org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings bus name if you wish to be a > user settings service. And yes, if nm-applet already has that name, you > can't get it. > > You'd said "I'm writing a program to manage wifi profiles and wish to > communicate the Connection objects to the NetworkManager.", which I took > to mean that you wanted to write your own settings service to provide > network connection data to NM. > > If you want to co-exist with nm-applet, that's not very easy right now > because for security reasons, only one user settings service is allowed > to provide network connection data to NetworkManager. If any process > could do it, there'd be nothing to stop trojan horse programs from doing > it too, or from reading your passwords, etc. > > We hope to fix this in the future by providing the full D-Bus interface > in the user settings service, which would allow other programs to > manipulate the connection data. That needs more work in the UI though > to alert users to the program that is requesting their passwords or > modifying network settings, and allow the user to either approve the > other program, deny it, etc. >
If I write a program similar to the nm-connection-editor and add a new connection in gconf would nm-applet see the new connection and prompt for security credentials? Thanks, Greg _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list