Re: [gentoo-user] Network manager [ control of wireless and wired interafaces]

[Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com>]

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.
 
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.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez