nm/nm-applet - how to stop automatic connections

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 01:34:44AM -0400, Mail Llists wrote:
> 
> 
>   If I have connected once to a wifi network - and that was an auto
> found connection - I can edit it and choose to not connect automatically.
> 
>   For a an auto found connection which I cannot and/or dont want to ever
> connect to automatically - i cannot unelect 'connect automatically' and
> save. The save/apply button is grayed out - and presumably will remain
> so until I have connected.
> 
>   But I cannot and dont want to connect - and I dont want to keep
> getting prompted for passhprase - its a rogue connection.
> 
>    How do I stop nn/nm-applet from doing this ?
> 
>    In fact I would like the default behaviour (for security if nothing
> else) to NEVER connect automatically to anything unless I tell it to -
> how can I do that ?
> 
>  thanks.

I believe you can remove the "Auto" from the beginning of the
connection's name to prevent this behavior.  That stops NetworkManager
from trying to automatically connect to that network in the future.
If you don't ever want to connect automatically to anything, you're
clearly outside of NetworkManager's use case and might want to
consider having NM not manage that interface, which you can do by
using system-config-network and turning off NM management on a
particular interface, or by setting "NM_CONTROLLED=no" in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.ifcfg-<INTERFACE>.

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