Description of problem: * Sometime a system connection have to be added without a GUI interface (e.g: On a remote server or an embedded system) * The NetworkManager.conf manpage, document that this can be achieved via a file in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ directory * However, the file format of these files is not documented and there's no example file provided in the package * A similar BR was opened on Debian, including the missing pieces: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637769 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): * Fedora-15 * Looking at https://community.dev.fedoraproject.org/packages/NetworkManager/ This hasn't changed in F-16, F-17 (rawhide) Proposed fix: * Formal documentation is in: http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/api/09/ref-settings.html - Although it's part of developer documentation, this specific page should be part of user documentation - The best (IMO) is to include it in the user documentation, but alternatively a link may be provided. * Add some minimal example files: - The Debian BR provides some - It was best if they could be located in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connection with some non-functional suffix (e.g: wireless.conf.example) However, it seems (from documentation) that NetworkManager does not look for a specific suffix (e.g: .conf) -- if that's the case, they may be placed in /usr/share/doc/NetworkManager-<version>/examples
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* The BR applies equally well to Fedora-17 which is still live and kicking so there's no reason to close it. * The Debian bug mentioned, had (a bit of) activity, including a sample configuration file (not yet applied). * As was noted in the Debian bug, there's currently no way to create new system connection from command line (e.g: no "nmcli con add" command). The requested example (+ documentation) serve as some minimal replacement to the missing functionality.
It is still the case.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
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