[Networkmanager] Network Manager connection profile creation fails when /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections is a symbolically linked.

[manjunatha srinivasan]

Hi

Network Manager doesn't allow creation of any network connection profile
for interface using symbolic link instead of folder. I am in need of having
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections as symbolic link to
/tmp/system-connections.  Please let me know any solution for this and also
let me know the more root cause of this error.

root at test:/etc# ls -lt /etc/NetworkManager/
total 20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   32 Aug  1 17:15 system-connections ->
/tmp/system-connections/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug  1 16:33 dispatcher.d
-rw-r-xr-x 1 root root  148 Mar  7  2022 NetworkManager.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  7  2022 conf.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  7  2022 dnsmasq-shared.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  7  2022 dnsmasq.d
root at fxr90:/etc# ls -lt /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug  1 17:15
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections -> /tmp/system-connections/
root at test:/etc# nmcli con add con-name  my-eth0 type ethernet ifname eth0
ipv4.method auto  ipv6.method auto  connection.autoconnect-priority 1
ipv4.dhcp-timeout 10 ipv6.ra-timeout 10
Error: Failed to add 'my-eth0' connection: failure adding connection:
settings plugin does not support adding connections

Thanks
Manjunatha Srinivasan N
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