# netctl2iwd [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/bertptrs/netctl2iwd.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/bertptrs/netctl2iwd) Convert your `netctl` wireless profiles to `iwd` profiles. [Iwd](https://iwd.wiki.kernel.org/) 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.