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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