Editing a VPN ask to introduce credentials but if you cancel can be accessed anyway

[Cristobal Diaz Aircury]

I'm logged as a normal user without admin privileges. When I try to edit a VPN I'm asked to introduce the credentials of the admin, nevertheless if I click cancel I can still access to the VPN configuration.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubuntu-settings 20.04.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-72.79~20.04.1-generic 5.15.98
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-72-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.26
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon May 29 11:16:38 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-05-04 (389 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Hello Cristobal, can you make changes from that interface? Or is it read-only?

Thanks

[Cristobal Diaz Aircury (cristobal-diaz-aircury)]

Hello Seth. It can be edited, and even removed. More info that might be useful:

I recently made some changes to limit the number of login attempts:

sudo nano /etc/pam.d/common-auth

auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure
auth required pam_deny.so
auth required pam_faillock.so onerr=fail deny=3 unlock_time=30
auth required pam_permit.so

Another change was to set Wayland as Windowing System.

Don't hesitate to ask me more info. Thanks for your time.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Are you in the admin or the sudo group? What's the output of the "groups" command?

[Cristobal Diaz Aircury (cristobal-diaz-aircury)]

Sorry, I recently formatted the computer so I don't have that information anymore. Thanks for your response.

[Eduardo Barretto (ebarretto)]

Hi Cristobal,

are you still able to reproduce this issue?
If yes could you give more information?

[Cristobal Diaz Aircury (cristobal-diaz-aircury)]

Hi Eduardo,

After a fresh installation of Ubuntu 22.04 I can still see this happening.

Logged as a non admin user I can access the VPN configuration even if I click on cancel in the authentication window.

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