Comment 0 for bug 91964

Binary package hint: network-manager-vpnc

I have been issued an RSA SecurID by my workplace, which can be used to access the corporate Cisco VPN. The way that the SecurID works is that the VPN has a very long static password, and the user password is a combination of the user's PIN plus the sequence of digits being displayed on the SecurID (which change every 60 seconds). Consequently, I cannot save /both/ my user password and my group password (because the user password changes every minute), but since the group password is very long and static it would be ideal if I could just save that password. Apparently a patch to allow the user to just save the group password has already been applied to the version of network-manager-vpnc in Fedora Core 6. This was in October, so it could very well have been merged upstream, but as it stands it doesn't seem as if it is in the version of network-manager-vpnc I am using in Feisty. The patch that was used by Fedora can be found at http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/NetworkManager-vpnc/FC-6/NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-gppasswd.patch?root=extras&hideattic=0&rev=1.1&only_with_tag=NetworkManager-vpnc-0_6_4-1_fc6&view=markup

Given the prevalence of the SecurID cards in corporate environments, and based on several postings I have seen to the Ubuntu forums, it seems like this is definitely a needed feature. As it stands it is simple to add the group password only to the vpnc configuration file to get the same effect, but this is not as nice as the frontend provided by network manager, and the vpnc command must be run as root.