Comment 118 for bug 360818

I meet here the same problem of failing because no secrets (trying configuring and start directly after installing network-manager-vpnc). I reboot, next i have installed something using sudo apt-get install(and close the terminal after directly, so i don't know if maybe there was a sudo active), and then i tried again starting the vpn and it works fine. I will do more tests with new installations today, so when people have scenarios that must fail, i like to know to test these.

How can i guaranteed that i have a root shell open?