Stores 802.1x password when not requested

Bug #788668 reported by Alex Mauer
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre

Bug Description

With an 802.1x wireless network, network-manager will store the password in gnome-keyring, even if the option “Ask for this password every time” is checked.

Obviously it should not be storing the password unless password storage is requested.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8.4~git.20110318t152954.9c4c9a0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 26 10:09:46 2011
IpRoute:
 10.87.80.0/23 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.87.81.229 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 169.254.10.106
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 10.87.80.1 dev wlan0 proto static
 default dev eth0 scope link metric 1002
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-14 (41 days ago)
WpaSupplicantLog:

no_proxy: localhost,127.0.0.0/8,*.local,*.bgt.banta.com,*.rrd.net,*.rrd.com,mail.google.com,169.254.0.0/16,10.0.0.0/8,enterprise-cert.banta.com

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Alex Mauer (hawke) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Assigning cyphermox per discussion with mdeslaur.

Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)
visibility: private → public
security vulnerability: yes → no
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