It seems that the nftables backend works well. Let's change the default.
This will also be backported to nm-1-32 branch, for 1.32.0 release.
This reverts commit 0609f1f31c.
D-Bus 1.3.1 (2010) introduced the standard "PropertiesChanged" signal
on "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties". NetworkManager is old, and predates
this API. From that time, it still had it's own PropertiesChanged signal
that are emitted together with the standard ones. NetworkManager
supports the standard PropertiesChanged signal since it switched to
gdbus library in version 1.2.0 (2016).
These own signals are deprecated for a long time already ([1], 2016), and
are hopefully not used by anybody anymore. libnm-glib was using them and
relied on them, but that library is gone. libnm does not use them and neither
does plasma-nm.
Hopefully no users are left that are affected by this API break.
[1] 6fb917178a
For NetworkManager profiles, "connection.uuid" is the identifier of the
profile. It is supposed to be a UUID, however:
- the UUID was not ensured to be all-lower case. We should make sure
that our UUIDs are in a consistent manner, so that users can rely
on the format of the string.
- the UUID was never actually interpreted as a UUID. It only was some
opaque string, that we use as identifier. We had nm_utils_is_uuid()
which checks that the format is valid, however that did not fully
validate the format, like it would accept "----7daf444dd78741a59e1ef1b3c8b1c0e8"
and "549fac10a25f4bcc912d1ae688c2b4987daf444d" (40 hex characters).
Both invalid UUIDs and non-normalized UUID should be normalized. We
don't want to break existing profiles that use such UUIDs, thus we don't
outright reject them. Let's instead mangle them during
nm_connection_normalize().
Property aliases should really just be shortcuts for one fully spelled
out property (sometimes, they do more like "master").
Anyway, we must also handle resetting the value, otherwise:
$ nmcli connection add type gsm apn ""
will still result in "gsm.apn=internet", unlike
$ nmcli connection add type gsm gsm.apn ""
Add new configure option to set the path to "polkit-agent-helper-1".
The path cannot be obtained from pkg-config and `pkg-config
--variable=prefix polkit-agent-1` is not good enough.
On Fedora, the path is "/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1".
On Debian Buster, the path is "/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1"
On Debian Sid, the path is "/usr/libexec/polkit-agent-helper-1" (but
currently it is also symlinked from "/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1".
This locks NM into dhcpcd-9.3.3 as that is the first version to support
the --noconfigure option. Older versions are no longer supported by NM
because they do modify the host which is undesirable.
Due to the way dhcpcd-9 uses privilege separation and that it re-parents
itself to PID 1, the main process cannot be reaped or waited for.
So we rely on dhcpcd correctly cleaning up after itself.
A new function nm_dhcp_client_stop_watch_child() has been added
so that dhcpcd can perform similar cleanup to the equivalent stop call.
As part of this change, the STOP and STOPPED reasons are mapped to
NM_DHCP_STATE_DONE and PREINIT is mapped to a new state NM_DHCP_STATE_NOOP
which means NM should just ignore this state.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/668
Revert this change. One problem is that none of the current GUIs
(nm-connection-editor, gnome-control-center, plasma-nm) expose the
dns-priority option. So, users tend to have their profile value set to
0. Changing the default means for them not only a change in behavior,
but its hard to fix via the GUI.
Also, what other call DNS leaks, is Split DNS to some. Both uses make
sense, but have conflicting goals. The default cannot accommodate both
at the same time.
Also, with split DNS enabled (dnsmasq, systemd-resolved), the concern
for DNS leaks is smaller. Imagine:
Wi-Fi profile with ipv4.dns-priority (effectively) 100, domain "example.com".
VPN profile with ipv4.dns-priority (effectively) 50 and a default route.
That is a common setup that one gets by default (and what probably many
users have today). In such a case with split DNS enabled, the Wi-Fi's DNS
server only sees requests for "*.example.com". So, it does not leak
everything.
Hence, revert this change before 1.28.0 release to the earlier behavior.
This reverts commit af13081bec.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/688
Change the default DNS priority of VPNs to -50, to avoid leaking
queries out of full-tunnel VPNs.
This is a change in behavior. In particular:
- when using dns=default (i.e. no split-dns) before this patch both
VPN and the local name server were added (in this order) to
resolv.conf; the result was that depending on resolv.conf options
and resolver implementation, the name servers were tried in a
certain manner which does not prevent DNS leaks.
With this change, only the VPN name server is added to resolv.conf.
- When using a split-dns plugin (systemd-resolved or dnsmasq), before
this patch the full-tunnel VPN would get all queries except those
ending in a local domain, that would instead be directed to the
local server.
After this patch, the VPN gets all queries.
To revert to the old behavior, set the DNS priority to 50 in the
connection profile.
Compare to the connection's GetSettings() call, which is not protected
by policykit permissions. It only checks that the requesting user is
allowed according to "connection.permission".
Previously, device's GetAppliedConnection() requires "network-control"
permissions. This although it only reads a profile, without modifying
anything. That seems unnecessary, also because in the common case the
applied connection is identical to the current settings connection, and
the latter can be read without special permissions.
Don't require a special policykit permission to read the applied
connection.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1882380
