Re: Network Manager not Retaining Wifi Password

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On 11/13/18 4:56 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 7/11/18 8:26 am, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> On 1/10/18 7:35 am, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>> On 29/9/18 1:25 am, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>> On 9/28/18 11:49 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>>>> I switched my wife definition in networkmanager back to "Store password for this
>>>>> user only (encrypted)" and that put a uuid entry into the maps area, while I was
>>>>> watching, that matched the uuid in the ifcfg file with my wifi password. Having
>>>>> rebooted the issue has now been resolved.
>>>> Good to know that the issue has been resolved.  I really hope it wasn't due to
>>>> switching your "wife definition".  :-)
>>>
>>> I don't think it was switching the wifi definition. The encrypted definition is what I
>>> have always used, but it stopped working when I changed the wifi router and adapter
>>> and the kernel wouldn't load the adapter driver because of the compile options I used.
>>> Thankyou for all your help.
>>>
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>> Having just revisited this issue after rectifying the issue with my wifi definition, it
>> has resurfaced again with my two vpn definitions. The two vpn definitions don't have
>> the password recorded even though I have specified it in the past. If I bring up
>> knetworkmanager5 and look in there the password is there, and if I transfer it into the
>> vpn definition in networkmanager and 'apply' it, select 'ok' to exit the edit process,
>> and then re-edit the definition, the password is not there (this is the same issue I
>> originally had with the wifi definition), and then when I connect to the definition I
>> am prompted for the vpn password (I don't get prompted for the kwallet password as I
>> have pam-kwallet installed).
>>
>> Do I need to change the definition from 'save password encrypted' to 'save not
>> encrypted' to get the appropriate file created with the password, and then change it
>> back to 'save password encrypted' to get the password retained (as worked with the wifi
>> password issue)? If so, why is networkmanager now working like this?
>
> This is indeed what I had to do to get networkmanager to retain the passwords. I had to
> change the password setting to all users to build a config file with the password in
> plain text, then switch it back to the current user mode to get it encrypted again and
> the password saved in the definition, is this a bug in Networkmanager functionality?
>
>
Well, I've not had any of the issues you're seeing.  So, if there is a problem with NM it
must be due to something triggering it on your system.

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