disposable sys-net and wifi password management

[pillule]

Hi,

When using a disposable sys-net, you eventually encounter two
occurences of password management that you may want to not repeat
at nauseam :

- the wifi password of your network, stored in
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
- the gnome-keyring will eventually prompt you for your
default-keyring (but it appears that can be skipped in the
connexion options), if so it will at least create a file in
~/.conf/

So my question is, if you do use a sys-net-dvm, how do you handle
this situation ?

- do you use bind-dirs ? (is that not reserved to template <-
vm ? and not possible at all for dvm-template <- dvm ?)
- do you use rpc services ? if so how ?
- another way ?

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[pillule]

https://www.mail-archive.com/qubes...@googlegroups.com/msg30118.html

I remembered about mail-archive.com and found this thread which
gives a solution :

Configure the networks settings in the templateDispvm.
This needs some manual interventions for each new wifi passwords /
installation
Also this means that you need to connect your templateDispvm to
the targeted networks with your modem.

I guess I get over it.

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[pillule]

> pillule <pil...@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When using a disposable sys-net, you eventually encounter two
>> occurences of
>> password management that you may want to not repeat at nauseam
>> :

>> [...]

>> So my question is, if you do use a sys-net-dvm, how do you
>> handle this
>> situation
>> ?
>>
>> - do you use bind-dirs ? (is that not reserved to template <-
>> vm ? and not possible at all for dvm-template <- dvm ?)
>> - do you use rpc services ? if so how ?
>> - another way ?
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/qubes...@googlegroups.com/msg30118.html
>
> I remembered about mail-archive.com and found this thread which
> gives a solution
> :
>
> Configure the networks settings in the templateDispvm.
> This needs some manual interventions for each new wifi passwords
> / installation
> Also this means that you need to connect your templateDispvm to
> the targeted
> networks with your modem.

Hi again,

There's two scripts to help with it.

When you have to restart a netvm you have to shutdown the vm which
depends on it or at least use qvm-pref <vm> netvm none
qvm-restart take care of that by disabling this pref before the
shutdown of a netvm and restore them after it start again.

letsetwifi is similar but meant specially to set your wifi
password in the templateDispvm so
- it cuts the connexions by disabling the netvm prefs
- it reassigns the network pci devices to the templateDVM
- shutdown the dvm, start the template
- wait for your input with `read` to let you take your time to
setup your password (you have to do it manually in network
manager widget)
- at your input restore the initial situation.

be warned that while there is some error handling;
both wont restore the prefs/pci if you interrupt them, eventually
leaving you with a network that you have to fix yourself.