network-manager-vpnc asks for password even though it's in the gnome-keyring

[Mackenzie Morgan]

When I put the group password and my password for VPN into the network-manager-vpnc popup, I tell it to save the password in my keyring. With Feisty, that worked fine, and after I entered the password for my keyring after logging in, the VPN wouldn't prompt more for a password. With Gutsy, the option to have gnome-keyring not prompt for the password on boot (just assume the desktop has access to the keyring) exists, and I enabled it. NetworkManager now pops up and asks for the VPN passwords even though they're supposed to be in the keyring. I checked with Seahorse, and they do show up in my saved passwords, so I think NM-vpnc isn't accessing the gnome-keyring correctly to retrieve the password.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Same here on gutsy, though I checked "Save password in keyring", I am asked for group and user password everytime.

It would be a good idea (also for LP #91964), if it would add a third checkbox "ask for user/group password every time", but if one also checks "save password...", they would already be filled into the fields, so that i just have to hit "OK".

Ciao

Martin

[Stephen Gornick (sgornick)]

This might be related to (or a dupllcate of, even) Bug #111507, but I am not sure.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

I have "fixed" this by wiping out my whole gnome-keyrings ( rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/*.keyring ). This removes ALL saved passwords!

Ciao

Martin

[chreko (chreko)]

Another way how this can be temporally fixed is by using Seahorse (Passwords and Encryption Keys). There you will find your passwords under the tab "passwords". After deleting them, network-manager could remember my password again. At least this is what happened to me. So the problem seems to be related with seahorse.

[R S Gill (rsgill)]

This was working in Feisty and is no longer working in Gutsy.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Since I wiped my keyrings, it works quite well. I discovered the following behaviour:

* Wenn the VPN connection works, no dialog is shown.
* Wenn connecting fails, an error dialog is displayed.
* The next time, the password/group password dialog is shown, but with the passwords already filled in. This could be to give the user a chance to change the password.

Ciao

Martin