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NAME

       nm-settings-keyfile - Description of keyfile settings plugin

DESCRIPTION

       NetworkManager is based on the concept of connection profiles that contain network
       configuration (see nm-settings-nmcli(5) for details). The profiles can be stored in
       various formats. NetworkManager uses plugins for reading and writing the data. The plugins
       can be configured in NetworkManager.conf(5).

       The keyfile plugin is the generic plugin that supports all the connection types and
       capabilities that NetworkManager has. The files are in a .ini-style format and located in
       /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/, /usr/lib/NetworkManager/system-connections/ and
       /run/NetworkManager/system-connections/. This plugin is always enabled and will
       automatically be used to store any connections that are not supported by any other active
       plugin. For security, it will ignore files that are readable or writable by any user other
       than 'root' since private keys and passphrases may be stored in plaintext inside the file.

FILE FORMAT

       The keyfile config format is a simple .ini-style format. It consists of sections (groups)
       of key-value pairs. More information of the generic key file format can be found at GLib
       key file format[1] (Lines beginning with a '#' are comments, lists are separated by
       character ; etc.).

       Each section corresponds to a setting name as described in the settings specification (nm-
       settings-nmcli(5)). Each key/value pair in a section is one of the properties from the
       specification.

       The majority of properties are written in the same format as the specification into the
       keyfile. However, some values are inconvenient for people to use so they are stored in the
       keyfile in more readable ways. These properties that differ from the specification are
       described below. An example could be IP addresses that are not written as integer arrays,
       but more reasonably as "1.2.3.4/12 1.2.3.254". Also, some lists of complex values
       (addresses, routes, routing-rules), instead of using a semicolon separated list, use one
       key-value pair per list element, with the key being the singular of the property name
       followed by the numeric index (i.e address1, address2, ...).

       Users can create or modify the keyfile connection files manually, even if that is not the
       recommended way of managing the profiles. However, if they choose to do that, they must
       inform NetworkManager about their changes (for example via nmcli con (re)load).

       Examples of keyfile configuration.

           A sample configuration for an ethernet network:
           [connection]
           id=Main eth0
           uuid=27afa607-ee36-43f0-b8c3-9d245cdc4bb3
           type=802-3-ethernet
           autoconnect=true

           [ipv4]
           method=auto

           [802-3-ethernet]
           mac-address=00:23:5a:47:1f:71

           A sample configuration for WPA-EAP (PEAP with MSCHAPv2) and always-ask secret:
           [connection]
           id=CompanyWIFI
           uuid=cdac6154-a33b-4b15-9904-666772cfa5ee
           type=wifi
           autoconnect=false

           [wifi]
           ssid=CorpWLAN
           mode=infrastructure
           security=802-11-wireless-security

           [wifi-security]
           key-mgmt=wpa-eap

           [ipv4]
           method=auto

           [ipv6]
           method=auto

           [802-1x]
           eap=peap;
           identity=joe
           ca-cert=/home/joe/.cert/corp.crt
           phase1-peapver=1
           phase2-auth=mschapv2
           password-flags=2

           A sample configuration for openvpn:
           [connection]
           id=RedHat-openvpn
           uuid=7f9b3356-b210-4c0e-8123-bd116c9c280f
           type=vpn
           timestamp=1385401165

           [vpn]
           service-type=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn
           connection-type=password
           password-flags=3
           remote=ovpn.my-company.com
           cipher=AES-256-CBC
           reneg-seconds=0
           port=443
           username=joe
           ca=/etc/openvpn/ISCA.pem
           tls-remote=ovpn.my-company.com

           [ipv6]
           method=auto

           [ipv4]
           method=auto
           ignore-auto-dns=true
           never-default=true

           A sample configuration for a bridge and a bridge port:
           [connection]                                 [connection]
           id=MainBridge                                id=br-port-1
           uuid=171ae855-a0ab-42b6-bd0c-60f5812eea9d    uuid=d6e8ae98-71f8-4b3d-9d2d-2e26048fe794
           interface-name=MainBridge                    interface-name=em1
           type=bridge                                  type=ethernet
                                                        master=MainBridge
           [bridge]                                     slave-type=bridge
           interface-name=MainBridge

           A sample configuration for a VLAN:
           [connection]
           id=VLAN for building 4A
           uuid=8ce1c9e0-ce7a-4d2c-aa28-077dda09dd7e
           interface-name=VLAN-4A
           type=vlan

           [vlan]
           interface-name=VLAN-4A
           parent=eth0
           id=4

DETAILS

       keyfile plugin variables for the majority of NetworkManager properties have one-to-one
       mapping. It means a NetworkManager property is stored in the keyfile as a variable of the
       same name and in the same format. There are several exceptions to this rule, mainly for
       making keyfile syntax easier for humans. The exceptions handled specially by keyfile
       plugin are listed below. Refer to nm-settings-nmcli(5) for all available settings and
       properties and their description.

       Name aliases. Some of the NetworkManager setting names are somewhat hard to type or
       remember. Therefore keyfile introduces aliases that can be used instead of the names.
           setting name                 keyfile alias
           802-3-ethernet            =  ethernet
           802-11-wireless           =  wifi
           802-11-wireless-security  =  wifi-security

       Table 1. 802-11-wireless setting (section)
       ┌──────────────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription                         │
       ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │ssid                  │                  │ string (or            │ SSID of Wi-Fi                       │
       │                      │                  │ decimal-byte list -   │ network.                            │
       │                      │                  │ obsolete)             │                                     │
       │                      │                  │                       │ Example: ssid=Quick                 │
       │                      │                  │                       │ Net                                 │
       ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │mac-address           │                  │ usual                 │ MAC address in                      │
       │                      │                  │ hex-digits-and-colons │ traditional                         │
       │                      │                  │ notation              │ hex-digits-and-colons               │
       │                      │                  │                       │ notation (e.g.                      │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 00:22:68:12:79:A2),                 │
       │                      │                  │                       │ or semicolon                        │
       │                      │                  │                       │ separated list of 6                 │
       │                      │                  │                       │ bytes (obsolete)                    │
       │                      │                  │                       │ (e.g.                               │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 0;34;104;18;121;162).               │
       ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │cloned-mac-address    │                  │ usual                 │ Cloned MAC address in               │
       │                      │                  │ hex-digits-and-colons │ traditional                         │
       │                      │                  │ notation              │ hex-digits-and-colons               │
       │                      │                  │                       │ notation (e.g.                      │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 00:22:68:12:79:B2),                 │
       │                      │                  │                       │ or semicolon                        │
       │                      │                  │                       │ separated list of 6                 │
       │                      │                  │                       │ bytes (obsolete)                    │
       │                      │                  │                       │ (e.g.                               │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 0;34;104;18;121;178).               │
       ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │mac-address-blacklist │                  │ list of MACs          │ MAC address                         │
       │                      │                  │ (separated with       │ blacklist.                          │
       │                      │                  │ semicolons)           │                                     │
       │                      │                  │                       │ Example:                            │
       │                      │                  │                       │ mac-address-blacklist=              │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 00:22:68:12:79:A6;00:22:68:12:79:78 │
       └──────────────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

       Table 2. 802-3-ethernet setting (section)
       ┌──────────────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription                         │
       ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │mac-address           │                  │ usual                 │ MAC address in                      │
       │                      │                  │ hex-digits-and-colons │ traditional                         │
       │                      │                  │ notation              │ hex-digits-and-colons               │
       │                      │                  │                       │ notation (e.g.                      │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 00:22:68:12:79:A2),                 │
       │                      │                  │                       │ or semicolon                        │
       │                      │                  │                       │ separated list of 6                 │
       │                      │                  │                       │ bytes (obsolete)                    │
       │                      │                  │                       │ (e.g.                               │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 0;34;104;18;121;162)                │
       ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │cloned-mac-address    │                  │ usual                 │ Cloned MAC address in               │
       │                      │                  │ hex-digits-and-colons │ traditional                         │
       │                      │                  │ notation              │ hex-digits-and-colons               │
       │                      │                  │                       │ notation (e.g.                      │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 00:22:68:12:79:B2),                 │
       │                      │                  │                       │ or semicolon                        │
       │                      │                  │                       │ separated list of 6                 │
       │                      │                  │                       │ bytes (obsolete)                    │
       │                      │                  │                       │ (e.g.                               │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 0;34;104;18;121;178).               │
       ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │mac-address-blacklist │                  │ list of MACs          │ MAC address                         │
       │                      │                  │ (separated with       │ blacklist.                          │
       │                      │                  │ semicolons)           │                                     │
       │                      │                  │                       │ Example:                            │
       │                      │                  │                       │ mac-address-blacklist=              │
       │                      │                  │                       │ 00:22:68:12:79:A6;00:22:68:12:79:78 │
       └──────────────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

       Table 3. bridge setting (section)
       ┌────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription                      │
       ├────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
       │mac-address │                  │ usual                 │ MAC address in                   │
       │            │                  │ hex-digits-and-colons │ traditional                      │
       │            │                  │ notation              │ hex-digits-and-colons            │
       │            │                  │                       │ notation, or                     │
       │            │                  │                       │ semicolon separated              │
       │            │                  │                       │ list of 6 decimal                │
       │            │                  │                       │ bytes (obsolete)                 │
       │            │                  │                       │                                  │
       │            │                  │                       │ Example:                         │
       │            │                  │                       │ mac-address=00:22:68:12:79:A2    │
       │            │                  │                       │ mac-address=0;34;104;18;121;162; │
       └────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

       Table 4. infiniband setting (section)
       ┌────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription                                                 │
       ├────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │mac-address │                  │ usual                 │ MAC address in                                              │
       │            │                  │ hex-digits-and-colons │ traditional                                                 │
       │            │                  │ notation              │ hex-digits-and-colons                                       │
       │            │                  │                       │ notation, or or                                             │
       │            │                  │                       │ semicolon separated                                         │
       │            │                  │                       │ list of 20 decimal                                          │
       │            │                  │                       │ bytes (obsolete)                                            │
       │            │                  │                       │                                                             │
       │            │                  │                       │ Example:                                                    │
       │            │                  │                       │ mac-address=                                                │
       │            │                  │                       │ 80:00:00:6d:fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:02:55:00:70:33:cf:01 │
       └────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

       Table 5. ipv4 setting (section)
       ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription                         │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │dns                 │                     │ list of DNS IP              │ List of DNS                         │
       │                    │                     │ addresses                   │ servers.                            │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                     │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example:                            │
       │                    │                     │                             │ dns=1.2.3.4;8.8.8.8;8.8.4.4;        │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │addresses           │ address1, address2, │ address/plen                │ List of static IP addresses.        │
       │                    │ ...                 │                             │                                     │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example:                            │
       │                    │                     │                             │ address1=192.168.100.100/24         │
       │                    │                     │                             │ address2=10.1.1.5/24                │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │gateway             │ gateway             │ string                      │ Gateway IP addresses as a           │
       │                    │                     │                             │ string.                             │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                     │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example:                            │
       │                    │                     │                             │ gateway=192.168.100.1               │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │routes              │ route1, route2, ... │ route/plen[,gateway,metric] │ List of IP routes.                  │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                     │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example:                            │
       │                    │                     │                             │ route1=8.8.8.0/24,10.1.1.1,77       │
       │                    │                     │                             │ route2=7.7.0.0/16                   │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │routes (attributes) │ route1_options,     │ key=val[,key=val...]        │ Attributes defined for the          │
       │                    │ route2_options, ... │                             │ routes, if any. The supported       │
       │                    │                     │                             │ attributes are explained in         │
       │                    │                     │                             │ ipv4.routes entry in `man           │
       │                    │                     │                             │ nm-settings-nmcli`.                 │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                     │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example:                            │
       │                    │                     │                             │ route1_options=mtu=1000,onlink=true │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
       │routing-rules       │ routing-rule1,      │ routing rule string         │ Routing rules as defined with `ip   │
       │                    │ routing-rule2, ...  │                             │ rule add`, but with mandatory fixed │
       │                    │                     │                             │ priority.                           │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                     │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example: routing-rule1=priority 5   │
       │                    │                     │                             │ from 192.167.4.0/24 table 45        │
       └────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

       Table 6. ipv6 setting (section)
       ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription                                                  │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │dns                 │                     │ list of DNS IP              │ List of DNS                                                  │
       │                    │                     │ addresses                   │ servers.                                                     │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                                              │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example:                                                     │
       │                    │                     │                             │ dns=2001:4860:4860::8888;2001:4860:4860::8844;               │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │addresses           │ address1, address2, │ address/plen                │ List of static IP addresses.                                 │
       │                    │ ...                 │                             │                                                              │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example: address1=abbe::cafe/96                              │
       │                    │                     │                             │ address2=2001::1234                                          │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │gateway             │ gateway             │ string                      │ Gateway IP addresses as a string.                            │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                                              │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example: gateway=abbe::1                                     │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │routes              │ route1, route2, ... │ route/plen[,gateway,metric] │ List of IP routes.                                           │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                                              │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example:                                                     │
       │                    │                     │                             │ route1=2001:4860:4860::/64,2620:52:0:2219:222:68ff:fe11:5403 │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │routes (attributes) │ route1_options,     │ key=val[,key=val...]        │ Attributes defined for the routes, if any. The supported     │
       │                    │ route2_options, ... │                             │ attributes are explained in ipv6.routes entry in `man        │
       │                    │                     │                             │ nm-settings-nmcli`.                                          │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                                              │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example: route1_options=mtu=1000,onlink=true                 │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
       │routing-rules       │ routing-rule1,      │ routing rule string         │ Routing rules as defined with `ip rule add`, but with        │
       │                    │ routing-rule2, ...  │                             │ mandatory fixed priority.                                    │
       │                    │                     │                             │                                                              │
       │                    │                     │                             │ Example: routing-rule1=priority 5 from 2001:4860:4860::/64   │
       │                    │                     │                             │ table 45                                                     │
       └────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

       Table 7. serial setting (section)
       ┌─────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription         │
       ├─────────┼──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
       │parity   │                  │ 'e', 'o', or 'n' │ The connection      │
       │         │                  │                  │ parity; even, odd,  │
       │         │                  │                  │ or none. Note that  │
       │         │                  │                  │ older versions of   │
       │         │                  │                  │ NetworkManager      │
       │         │                  │                  │ stored this as an   │
       │         │                  │                  │ integer: 69 ('E')   │
       │         │                  │                  │ for even, 111 ('o') │
       │         │                  │                  │ for odd, or 110     │
       │         │                  │                  │ ('n') for none.     │
       │         │                  │                  │                     │
       │         │                  │                  │ Example: parity=n   │
       └─────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────┴─────────────────────┘

       Table 8. vpn setting (section)
       ┌─────────┬─────────────────────┬────────┬───────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription           │
       ├─────────┼─────────────────────┼────────┼───────────────────────┤
       │data     │ separate variables  │        │ The keys of the       │
       │         │ named after keys of │        │ data dictionary are   │
       │         │ the dictionary      │        │ used as variable      │
       │         │                     │        │ names directly        │
       │         │                     │        │ under [vpn]           │
       │         │                     │        │ section.              │
       │         │                     │        │                       │
       │         │                     │        │ Example:              │
       │         │                     │        │ remote=ovpn.corp.com  │
       │         │                     │        │ cipher=AES-256-CBC    │
       │         │                     │        │ username=joe          │
       ├─────────┼─────────────────────┼────────┼───────────────────────┤
       │secrets  │ separate variables  │        │ The keys of the       │
       │         │ named after keys of │        │ secrets dictionary    │
       │         │ the dictionary      │        │ are used as variable  │
       │         │                     │        │ names directly under  │
       │         │                     │        │ [vpn-secrets]         │
       │         │                     │        │ section.              │
       │         │                     │        │                       │
       │         │                     │        │ Example:              │
       │         │                     │        │ password=Popocatepetl │
       └─────────┴─────────────────────┴────────┴───────────────────────┘

       Table 9. wifi-p2p setting (section)
       ┌─────────┬──────────────────┬───────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription           │
       ├─────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
       │peer     │                  │ usual                 │ MAC address in        │
       │         │                  │ hex-digits-and-colons │ traditional           │
       │         │                  │ notation              │ hex-digits-and-colons │
       │         │                  │                       │ notation (e.g.        │
       │         │                  │                       │ 00:22:68:12:79:A2),   │
       │         │                  │                       │ or semicolon          │
       │         │                  │                       │ separated list of 6   │
       │         │                  │                       │ bytes (obsolete)      │
       │         │                  │                       │ (e.g.                 │
       │         │                  │                       │ 0;34;104;18;121;162). │
       └─────────┴──────────────────┴───────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘

       Table 10. wpan setting (section)
       ┌────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
       │PropertyKeyfile VariableFormatDescription               │
       ├────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
       │mac-address │                  │ usual                 │ MAC address in            │
       │            │                  │ hex-digits-and-colons │ hex-digits-and-colons     │
       │            │                  │ notation              │ notation (e.g.            │
       │            │                  │                       │ 76:d8:9b:87:66:60:84:ee). │
       └────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘

   Secret flags
       Each secret property in a NetworkManager setting has an associated flags property that
       describes how to handle that secret. In the keyfile plugin, the value of -flags variable
       is a decimal number (0 - 7) defined as a sum of the following values:

       •   0 - (NM owned) - the system is responsible for providing and storing this secret.

       •   1 - (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.

       •   2 - (not-saved) - this secret should not be saved but should be requested from the
           user each time it is required.

       •   4 - (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.

FILES

       /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*

SEE ALSO

       nm-settings-nmcli(5), nm-settings-ifcfg-rh(5), NetworkManager(8), NetworkManager.conf(5),
       nmcli(1), nmcli-examples(7)

NOTES

        1. GLib key file format
           https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Key-value-file-parser.html#glib-Key-value-file-parser.description