GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 573987
[enh] implement import/export
Last modified: 2014-01-02 17:13:06 UTC
Implement import/export of PPtP connections.
*** Bug 551940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 589722 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bump This still not working in Ubuntu 10.04 with NM 0.8
To be more precise I am talking about version 0.8-0ubuntu3
with NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.0-1.git20100411.fc13.x86_64.rpm still happens !
Why is this bug not in the to-do list for 0.8.1 or 0.8.2 This is my way of bumping this issue. Sorry if its not appropriate but this is very frustrating.
Mainly because I don't have a good way to do this yet. There are two options: 1) use a simple keyfile that *only* works with NetworkManager 2) attempt to load configuration in from normal system configuration like /etc/ppp/options, /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, /etc/ppp/options.pptp, etc We should probably do #1 since all the system ppp config locations are protected and thus normal users couldn't ever export to them. But a question: in what scenarios would you be using import/export for pptp and what procedures would you use if you had it? Just copying the connection from one NM-enabled computer to a second NM-enabled computer? Using the export file to ease deployment of multiple machines? etc?
The situation I would have found it useful to export/import PPTP VPN settings was to deploy to new/reinstalled machines. There are plenty of settings that need to be set that could be saved in an export file.
bug 641254 points out that there is a standard Microsoft file format for describing PPTP connections, so we should probably use that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 641254 ***