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network-manager-vpnc package

  1. Bug #360818
  2. Comment #122

Comment 122 for bug 360818

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Chris Sherlock (ta-bu-shi-da-yu) wrote :

OK, so I'm trying to work this out.

NeedSecrets - now correct me if I'm wrong here, but from what I've read while doing some research, this is an error that's occuring because network-manager can't get access to the relevant passwords for the VPN connection!

So in my travails into how it seems that NetworkManager does things (someone please pipe in here if I'm wrong), but this is how I understand that it works:

1. You bring up the network manager interface to connect to the VPN
2. nm then looks at gconf at System/Network/Connections/ and looks for the entry that matches the name, uuid and the service plugin name (?? is this right?)
3. It can then prompt for credentials, or it looks at Gnome-keyring.

So therefore, I guess that the following need to be checked:

1. Check what the uuid is for your VPN connection in gconf
2. Now go to Applications -> Accessories -> Passwords and Encryption Keys
3. Find the key for this connection (it should says something like "password for <VPN connection name>"

If you can't find it, then possibly there is something wrong with retrieving the secrets needed for the VPN?

Just a thought. If an nm person could chime in, that would be great :-) Hopefully I'm not misleading anyone! But this bug has been going on for a long time...