- it controls echoing passwords input on terminal
- it replaces --show-secrets in 'nmcli connection show', which is deprecated now
- it replaces --show-password in 'nmcli device wifi hotspot', which is deprecated now
Synopsis:
nmcli connection clone [--temporary] [id|uuid|path] <ID> <new name>
It copies the <ID> connection as <new name>. The command is very useful
if there is a connection, but another one is needed for a related
configuration. One can copy the existing profile and modify it for the
new situation.
For example:
$ nmcli con clone main-eth second-eth
$ nmcli con modify second-eth connection.interface-name em4
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757627
Example:
before:
$ nmcli c add type gsm con-nameX aaa ifname fsd
Error: 'ifname' argument is required.
now:
$ nmcli c add type gsm con-nameX aaa ifname fsd
Error: mandatory 'ifname' not seen before 'con-nameX'.
When a VLAN connection was added with command:
nmcli c add type vlan ifname v10 id 10 dev 00:11:22:33:44:55
nmcli tried to assign a byte-array value to the ethernet.mac-address
string property, resulting in a invalid connection which failed to
verify. Fix this and set the value as plain string.
The localization headers are now included via "nm-default.h".
Also fixes several places, where we wrongly included <glib/gi18n-lib.h>
instead of <glib/gi18n.h>. For example under "clients/" directory.
Rather than randomly including one or more of <glib.h>,
<glib-object.h>, and <gio/gio.h> everywhere (and forgetting to include
"nm-glib-compat.h" most of the time), rename nm-glib-compat.h to
nm-glib.h, include <gio/gio.h> from there, and then change all .c
files in NM to include "nm-glib.h" rather than including the glib
headers directly.
(Public headers files still have to include the real glib headers,
since nm-glib.h isn't installed...)
Also, remove glib includes from header files that are already
including a base object header file (which must itself already include
the glib headers).
Rename verify_master_for_slave(), since it does a lot more than just verifying
the master setting.
Make the type check optional and return the type of the connection that
matched. This makes it possible to omit setting the slave type on a command
line and still get the slave type right.
This separates setup of the master & slave type and addition of the wired
settings for "bond-slave", "bridge-slave" and "team-slave" connection types
from processing of slave type specific options.
A follow-up commit will make it possible to specify master (and slave type) for
any connection, not relying on "-slave" types.
