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wpasupplicant package

  1. Bug #1104476
  2. Comment #164

Comment 164 for bug 1104476

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Neil Broadley (scaine) wrote : Re: Network manager cannot connect to WPA2/PEAP/MSCHAPv2 network without CA_Certificate

Note the comment in #144 - while removing the system-ca-certs=true line might work, any changes you make to the network connection in Network Manager thereafter will re-add the line!

So the current workflow for connecting to a PEAP WIFI network is currently:
1. Make the connection. It will fail, but it will create an entry in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections.
2. Edit that connection as root, remove the system-ca-certs=true line.
3. Never make any changes to that connection again.

One more small note - changing the line to read system-ca-certs=false causes the line to disappear when you save the file. I have no idea what is changing the file on write, but you can basically write the change and immediately cat the file, but instead of a line that says system-ca-certs=false, the line has vanished completely. Perhaps NetworkManager tracks the connection files in realtime, or some upstart job is submitting the changes? I don't know. I just found it interesting that the correct behaviour is actually the default behaviour and that this version causing this bug is actively changing that default behaviour.