NetworkManager applet doesn't ask again for passwords when the connection fails

[Lucian Chirita]

Binary package hint: network-manager-vpnc

To reproduce:
- create a vpnc connection using the NetworkManager applet
- choose not to save user and group passwords
- save the connection
- attempt to connect
- you will be prompted for the passwords
- write an invalid password
- the connection fails
- attempt to connect again
- you are not prompted for the passwords again
- the connection fails again

You will only be able to correct the password(s) if you edit the vpnc connection, don't change anything, save it and attempt to connect again (or, of course, if you log out and log in again into Gnome).

Using Ubuntu 8.10.

Relevant packages:
network-manager 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1
network-manager-gnome 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1
network-manager-vpnc 0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1

[Lucian Chirita (dada68)]

Note that the applet remembers passwords even if you cancel the passwords dialog. So if you attempt to connect and then change your mind while inputting the passwords, you won't be able to connect later since the applet uses the partial password(s) that you've written before canceling the dialog.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Lucian Chirita wrote:
> Note that the applet remembers passwords even if you cancel the
> passwords dialog. So if you attempt to connect and then change your
> mind while inputting the passwords, you won't be able to connect later
> since the applet uses the partial password(s) that you've written before
> canceling the dialog.
>
>
Please test the latest intrepid/jaunty packages in network-manager team PPA:

 http://launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive.

 status incomplete

Thanks

[etali (etali)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Lucian Chirita (dada68)]

The problem no longer occurs in Karmic. The NM applet prompts for the VPN password at each connect attempt (if the password is not saved).

I'm going to close this as invalid since I have no details on the fix.