While most secrets are serialized as individual settings with a string
value, all VPN secrets are serialized together as a string dict which is
the value of a single setting. Incorrect serialization causes VPN
secrets to not be remembered by NetworkManager.
This commit adds a new method that allows adding secrets as VPN secrets
specifically such that they can be correctly serialized.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1535>
While we can use the libnm API directly from JS, the call will
synchronously load the VPN service descriptions from disk.
Previously we were lowering the impact by caching the result,
but as we stopped doing that, it becomes more important to address
the issue properly and move it off to a thread.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/2386
This causes a debug SpiderMonkey build to fail when it throws an
exception for the missing symbol, but doesn't properly return FALSE
when executing the script.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703442
VPN secrets are stored by the plugins, that provide separate
helpers for authentication. This commit adds the support for invoking
the binaries and pass them connection details.
For plugins that support it (as exposed by their keyfile), we invoke
them in "external-ui-mode" and expect a set of metadata about the
secrets which is used to build a shell styled dialog.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658484
A network agent is a component that stores network secrets (like
wifi passwords) in the session keyring. This commit adds an
implementation of it to be used by the shell network dialogs. It
handles most of the keyring stuff, delegating the UI to upper layers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650244
