<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 10:05 AM Greg Oliver <<a href="mailto:oliver.greg@gmail.com">oliver.greg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 1:54 AM manjunatha srinivasan <<a href="mailto:manjunathan.n@gmail.com" target="_blank">manjunathan.n@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi </div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(244,245,247);color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">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 </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(244,245,247);color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">/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. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">root@test:/etc# ls -lt /etc/NetworkManager/</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">total 20</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   32 Aug  1 17:15 system-connections -> /tmp/system-connections/</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug  1 16:33 dispatcher.d</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">-rw-r-xr-x 1 root root  148 Mar  7  2022 NetworkManager.conf</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  7  2022 conf.d</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  7  2022 dnsmasq-shared.d</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  7  2022 dnsmasq.d</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">root@fxr90:/etc# ls -lt /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Aug  1 17:15 /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections -> /tmp/system-connections/</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">root@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</span><br style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)"><span style="color:rgb(23,43,77);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,"Fira Sans","Droid Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(244,245,247)">Error: Failed to add 'my-eth0' connection: failure adding connection: settings plugin does not support adding connections</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Thanks<br>Manjunatha Srinivasan N</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Possibly selinux - </div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">ls -lZ /tmp/system-connections</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">should be:</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">system_u:object_r:NetworkManager_etc_rw_t:s0<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">You may need to relabel the symlink - I do this often to overcome selinux after symlinking:</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">semanage fcontext -a -t NetworkManager_etc_rw_t "/tmp/system-connections(/.*)?"<br>restorecon -Rv /tmp/system-connections<br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Since /tmp is volatile, you will more than likely need to provide a way to do this @ each boot (if this is even the problem)..  I have not tried your approach.  I just know selinux and symlinks require a little finesse.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Also, you can always try "setenforce 0" and restart NetworkManager.  If that works, you will know it is selinux.</div><br></div></div></div>
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