[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#594849: network-manager: Missing information about how to create a system-level connection

[Christian Perrier]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.1-2+b1
Severity: normal

I wanderred though n-m documentation and noticed that there is a
system-level way to configure network connections, in order to avoid
doing it for each and every user of the machine.

I suspect this should go in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections,
but how?

README says:
"the system settings service stores it's config in distro-specific
formats, or in a distro- agnostic format, depending on
user/administrator preference."

But what is this format? An example in /usr/share/doc/n-m/examples
would probably be enough...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.24-3   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  isc-dhcp-client               4.1.1-P1-9 ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-3   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.88-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.6-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                161-1      GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                   0.8.1-2+b1 network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.8.1-2+b1 network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-2     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                      2.17.2-3.1 Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          161-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.10-2   client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dns 2.55-1                               A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  ipt 1.4.9-1                              administration tools for packet fi
ii  mod 0.4+git.20100624t180933.6e79d15-1+b1 D-Bus service for managing modems
pn  net <none>                               (no description available)
ii  pol 0.96-2                               framework for managing administrat
pn  ppp <none>                               (no description available)

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information