# NetworkManager D-Bus Reference Manual

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Dan
Williams

    	    dcbw@redhat.com

2011
The NetworkManager Authors

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## D-Bus API Reference

This part documents the D-Bus interface used to access the NetworkManager daemon.

## Network Configuration Setting Specification

This part documents the properties and value types of each "Setting" object that composes the basic unit of NetworkManager configuration, the "Connection". Each Connection object is simply a dictionary mapping setting names (like "wimax" or "bluetooth") to a dictionary of key/value pairs that represents each itself.

### Secret flag types

Each secret property in a setting has an associated "flags" property that describes how to handle that secret. The "flags" property is a bitfield that contains zero or more of the following values logically OR-ed together.

- `0x0 (none)` - the system is responsible for providing and storing this secret.
- `0x1 (agent-owned)` - a user-session secret agent is responsible for providing and storing this secret; when it is required, agents will be asked to provide it.
- `0x2 (not-saved)` - this secret should not be saved but should be requested from the user each time it is required. This flag should be used for One-Time-Pad secrets, PIN codes from hardware tokens, or if the user simply does not want to save the secret.
- `0x4 (not-required)` - in some situations it cannot be automatically determined that a secret is required or not. This flag hints that the secret is not required and should not be requested from the user.

## Index

## License

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