netctl2iwd

Convert your netctl wireless profiles to iwd profiles.

Iwd is a recent projected intended to replace wpa_supplicant. It can be used with ConnMan and NetworkManager with very little changes. However, if you previously used netctl for your wifi needs, you will need to write out all the profiles again. This is where this tool comes in.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/bertptrs/netctl2iwd
cd netctl2iwd
cargo install

Usage

netctl2iwd -i /etc/netctl

You can use this program to convert specific netctl profiles or a folder of netctl profiles. The program does not specifically need root permissions, but it does need to read (and write) the profiles.

The default destination directory is /var/lib/profiles which is where the profiles should be stored. You can change the default directory for output files with the -o [OUTPUT DIR] directive.

For input, you can either specify each file individually, or you can specify a profile directory with the -i [INPUT DIR] option.

To run this program without root, you need to

• copy your profile files to another directory
• make the copies readable for your user
• create an output directory
• run the program with the alternative profile directory and output directory
• copy the generated profiles to the proper directory, optionally after manual inspection

Limitations

netctl profiles are actually bash files, however, this tool parses them as if they were .ini files. This works okay for simple profiles (as generated by wifi-menu, for instance) but may fail for more complicated set-ups.

Because of this, WPA-enterprise profiles will fail to parse since the wpa_config code is a bash array. This might be fixed in future versions.