Network manager from CLI

**poisonkiller** · August 13th, 2009

Hello!
I've been trying to get network manager to autoconnect VPN on login (via nm-applet), but it doesn't seem to work. So, after a while I found this command: /usr/lib/network-manager-pptp/nm-pptp-auth-dialog -u <UUID> -n <network name> -s org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp
My question is, where can I find a VPN's UUID?

**michy99** · August 13th, 2009

If you run

Code:

sudo blkid

while connected to the VPN, does it show the UUID?

**poisonkiller** · August 13th, 2009

No, it only shows sda1, sda5 and sda6 UUID's.

**michy99** · August 13th, 2009

What do you get for

Code:

ls /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

**poisonkiller** · August 13th, 2009

Originally Posted by michy99

What do you get for

Code:

ls /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

It displayed "Auto eth0". So I sudo nano'd it, got eth0's UUID and tried it in the command. It worked, asked my password, but then froze. I think that program was only a password dialog and there must be something else to connect the VPN... Please, does somebody have a good idea how to make VPN autoconnect?