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Devan Carpenter transcribed 1.4K bytes:
> Pierre Neidhardt transcribed 1.1K bytes:
> > 
> > Devan Carpenter <mail@dvn.me> writes:
> > 
> > > Oleg Pykhalov transcribed 1.8K bytes:
> > > 
> > >> We could pick a ‘nmtui’ program as we pick ‘cfdisk’ instead of ‘fdisk’.
> > >
> > > +1
> > 
> > Is nmtui on the install image as well?
>  
> I'm not sure. We should consider adding it, if not.
> 

Yes, it is:

readlink $(which nmtui)
/gnu/store/kp99ls7p93j640ghsgfzma0fr9ql72p3-network-manager-1.8.4/bin/nmtui


If I remember correctly NM had something about PAM and groups so that you
could add connections.

Gentoo has a neat little tool in their install image.
net-setup detects cards and prompts you for passwords etc.
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/livecd-tools.git/tree/net-setup