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loadlover

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Registered: 2017-05-10

Posts: 103

Can't use pre-existing profiles in NetworkManager

Hi all,

Finally got around to this problem: NetworkManager (I'm currently operating in KDE Plasma 5, but this was the same with GNOME 3.24) won't allow me to use old profiles that I've simply copied into /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections.

Permissions & ownerships of existing profiles are 0600 root root, so I've made sure old files I've copied over have the same. This seems to have had the effect that old profiles do now appear in the list of availables, but nothing happens when I click 'Connect'. Old profiles work with an old NetworkManager install, but then don't work with a new one!

Any ideas?

Loady

EDIT: Is there some sort of UUID voodoo going on? Keys, secrets? Oh golly.

EDIT FURTHER: Using nmcli for this doesn't help. Not that it should.

Last edited by loadlover (2017-08-14 03:28:52)