I’d like to make my computer connect to my wifi automatically. Is this possible to do through configuration.nix? There seems to be options in networking related to it, but I cannot figure it out. Preferably the wifi password would be stored in a separate file so the configuration can be versioned.
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We have a way but it requires the password in the configuration and not externally: NixOS 23.11 manual | Nix & NixOS
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Thanks, must have missed that section in manual.
Can I also add a OpenVPN, with the VPN’s username and password, and also configure one of the Wi-Fi connections to automatically also connect to the VPN in the nixos config?
there is a new way to do this now which is networking.networkmanager.ensureProfiles and also allows for secret loading through files. It supports everything networkmanager supports, so wifi, openvpn, wireguard, ethernet, etc…
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@Janik, thank you very much for your improvements!
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How do you securely configure a wifi name to be the contents of /run/secrets/home-wifi-name and the wifi password to be the contents of /run/secrets/home-wifi-password?
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