Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Bug #1060907
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1060907

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Ingar Smedstad (ingsme) wrote :

As long as it is not in plain text in a file on the filesystem I do not care.

We want users to be able to set up wireless connections and select available networks. As far as I have acertained this is accomplished by giving them rights to org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system.

If we do this passwords WILL be stored in plain text in /etc.

Storing passwords in plain text will *allways* and in any circumstances be a bad design.

The VPN test I set up did not store my password in plain text, and yet mysteriously managed to start again without prompting me for a password.