Networkmanager And Security - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

PPTP support for KDE is not available yet, but is being worked on.
For GNOME, choose one of the following:
• NovellVPN support for GNOME NetworkManager applet—package
NetworkManager-novellvpn-gnome
• OpenVPN support for GNOME NetworkManager applet—package
NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome
• vpnc (Cisco) support for GNOME NetworkManager applet—package
NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome
• PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) support for GNOME NetworkManager
applet—package NetworkManager-pptp-gnome
After you have installed the packages, configure your VPN connection as described in
Section 23.3, "Configuring Network Connections"

23.7 NetworkManager and Security

NetworkManager distinguishes two types of wireless connections, trusted and untrusted.
A trusted connection is any network that you explicitly selected in the past. All others
are untrusted. Trusted connections are identified by the name and MAC address of the
access point. Using the MAC address ensures that you cannot use a different access
point with the name of your trusted connection.
NetworkManager periodically scans for available wireless networks. If multiple trusted
networks are found, the most recently used is automatically selected. NetworkManager
waits for your selection in case that all networks are untrusted.
If the encryption setting changes but the name and MAC address remain the same,
NetworkManager attempts to connect, but first you are asked to confirm the new en-
cryption settings and provide any updates, such as a new key.
NetworkManager knows two types of connections: user and system connections.
User connections are connections that become available to NetworkManager when the
first user logs in. Any required credentials are asked from the user and when the user
logs out, the connections are disconnected and removed from NetworkManager. Con-
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