NetworkManager Web Authentication

Name of Project

NetworkManager Web Authentication

Description

NetworkManager knows how to connect to many different types of networks, both wired and wireless, and can auto-authenticate to WEP and WPA networks. However, it can't auto-authenticate to networks that require a web-based login, which includes many wired and wireless networks such as SeneNET and AirYork.

Modify NetworkManager so that it talks (though dbus) to a Firefox extension for automatic login to a web-authenticated network.

Resources: ctyler, (roc, callion for dbus)

Leader(s)

• Jason Tarka

Project Contributor(s)

• None

Contribution Opportunities

• Test on different web-authenticated networks (0.2 or 0.3 release)
• list of network devices (eth0, wlan1, etc) that may need web login
• Keeping directory structures intact when exporting files during build (see this blog post for more details)

Project News / Updates

10/14/2008 -

• The XPCOM objects compile, and have DBus support in them

10/09/2008 -

• I now know I need XPCOM objects too talk with the D-Bus dbus
• Almost have the components compiled, then can add functionality

09/18/2008 -

• Met with David and Chris to talk about how this will be done
• 0.1 release will be a small extension in Firefox and a second program to talk back & forth via dbus

09/16/2008 -

• Created Project page for this project.

NetworkManager Bugs

• NM spews too many messages if system settings service can't start
• nm-applet crashes when selecting a WiFi network
• NetworkManager fails access to keyring