WPA2 Enterprise certificate file selector does not check read permissions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GTK+ |
Expired
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Wishlist
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Network Manager Applet |
New
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Low
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The WPA2 Enterprise dialog in NetworkManager has lots of configuration fields, and some are necessary to save the connection. Unfortunately, the GUI doesn't provide any feedback what particular field is missing / wrong. This was particularly annoying in my special case:
For my university's network, I need to provide a certain CA certificate, which I downloaded and copied to /etc/ssl/certs. I then selected the file in the gnome file chooser dialog by typing the directory in the bash-like selection textfield. The automatic completion showed my certiticate, and so I opened it. However, "apply" was still greyed out. As I noticed after some searching, the file was set to file mode 600 and owned by root.
So, the file should either not be considered by the completion in the selection textfield, or there should be some feedback why it can't be used.
The same happens if the file is in a wrong format.
I think the actual bug lies in the auto completion, because now I noticed that the "bad" cert is NOT displayed in the graphical folder vew.
Changed in network-manager-applet: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gtk: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in network-manager-applet: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
Changed in gtk: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
Changed in gtk: | |
status: | Confirmed → Expired |
I'm not able to reproduce this bug, could you please post simple steps that consistently reproduce? Thanks!