Hello I am a Linux and OpenSuse beginner and I would like some help. The basics of it is that I want to access NetworkManager to make a wireless connection a system connection. From what I have read online, there is a front-end you can access, but I don’t understand how. Am I understanding this correctly? I assumed it’s a different application from the system’s network settings, but am I wrong? If it is just the network settings, how do I make a system connection through that?
Through my research I have seen instructions to access on this forum, but I can’t follow them at all and I feel like they are outdated. That’s why I am making this new post in the hopes I can get more up-to-date info.
Which desktop environment are you using? Normally there should be a network applet in your taskbar. Click on it and there should be a configuration button on top. This opens the “networkmanager gui”.
There you can click on your wireless network you want to modify. Simply choose “All users may connect to this network”. This will make it a “system connection”.
With a “system connection” it is stored exactly that way: “Store password for all users (not encypted)”. Only user defined connections make use of encryption.