The key-mgmt property of NMSettingWirelessSecurity is slightly confusing
when you know there's also a wpa_supplicant configuration option called
"key_mgmt". Our property is not the same as that supplicant option even
though they do have things in common. NMs key-mgmt is not exactly meant
to configure which AKM suites you want to use, but rather which method
of wifi security is being used (so "wpa2+wpa3 personal", "wpa3 personal
only" or "wpa3 enterprise only").
Try to make this a bit clearer in the documentation of the property by
rewriting it and listing those security methods.
Most string properties can be either %NULL (unset) or a non-empty
string.
For a few properties, like "gsm.apn", also the empty word is a valid
value. That makes it problematic to use from nmcli, because
nmcli connection modify "$PROFILE" gsm.apn ""
means to reset the default (NULL). How to configure the empty word?
For the APN, "" has a specific meaning, distinct from NULL, so we
need to be able to represent that.
The other problem with nmcli is that
nmcli -g gsm.apn connection show "$PROFILE"
is supposed to give you a value that you an set again, like
X="$(nmcli -g gsm.apn connection show "$PROFILE"; echo x)"
nmcli connection modify "$PROFILE2" gsm.apn "${X%$'\n'x}"
but for %NULL and "" the output would be the same.
The "solution" to that is interpreting "" as NULL (like we always did)
and a non-empty string that contains all whitespace, like a string with
one whitespace less. This way, all values can be expressed.
Note that in case of "gsm.apn", the string is anyway internally
normalized with g_strstrip(), so a string with all whitespace was
not expressable.
This was currently unused, because actually no property of type string
had handle_emptyunuset set.
Fixes: e9ee4e39f1 ('cli: handle string properties that can both be empty and %NULL')
This will be used for NMTernary properties. The get() method
is still the same as for _pt_gobject_enum, but the setter
and complete functions are more flexible to also allow yes/true
and any unique abbreviations.
This patch is introducing the wired setting accept-all-mac-addresses
property. The value corresponds to the kernel flag IFF_PROMISC.
When accept-all-mac-address is enabled, the interface will accept all
the packets without checking the destination mac address.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
