networkManager VPNC did not allow a change of password

[mike]

Binary package hint: network-manager-vpnc

I was having trouble logging into works VPN, its version is reported as " Cisco Systems, Inc ASA5520-K8 Version 7.0(6) built by builders on Tue 22-Aug-06 13:22 "

I spoke to the help desk who reset my password and I was informed - as I had come to expect from the cisco client, that I would need to change my password. This prompt never appeared as it normally would, instead I typed my new temporary password three times and it finally let me in.

I suspect I was interacting with a password change dialog I could not see. In a similar vein, when connecting and being rejected for password reasons the cisco VPN client informs the user of the failure reason, the network Manager gave no helpful dialog at all, it just did not connect.

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
network-manager-vpnc:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Oops, just noticed there is a sufficiently similar bug report already open as bug 285023, marking this as a duplicate of it (implementing both requires the same type of overhaul in n-m-vpnc to allow NM to understand prompts coming from vpnc)