NM 0.7 Hard to fix if you have saved passwords for vpnc plugin (possible others)

Bug #262214 reported by Thomas Novin
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
NetworkManager
Fix Released
Unknown
network-manager-vpnc (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Undecided
Unassigned
Nominated for Intrepid by Thomas Novin

Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

If you have saved pasword and group-key in NM when you connect to a Cisco VPN (vpnc) network, NM doesn't let you change or remove the saved password.

You have to go into Applications > Seahorse > Passwords and find you password there and remove it.

$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni1-0ubuntu1~nm1~hardy1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni1-0ubuntu1~nm1~hardy1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20080818t061112+eni1-0ubuntu1~nm1~hardy1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.6.6-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

Revision history for this message
ironfisher (dgvalde) wrote :

It also happen to me with my vpn-pptp connection. I am unable to change the password.

To connect to some VPN networks a new password is needed in each session. And It is really frustrating to delete the old connection and create a new one every time a need to connect to the vpn because I need to use a different password and the network-manager don't let me to reuse the configured connection with another password.

It just only work the first time. I mean network-manager only let me type the password (if I didn't type it when configuring it, as logical) the first time I'm connecting to the network.

In Hardy I was able to retype my password whenever I wanted to connect to the vpn.
I think the user should have the possibility to specify if he/she wants to retype his/her password every time and remember the name or, maybe, both his/her user name and password.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Instalados: 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu2~nm4
  Candidato: 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu2~nm4
  Tabla de versión:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu2~nm4 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

duplicate of bug 262191

Changed in network-manager-vpnc:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in network-manager:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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