Re: PEAP and keyfile

[Jerry Vonau <jvonau shaw ca>]

On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 11:53 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 19:31 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I've ran into a situation that I'm not sure in how to handle with these
> > packages[1] I was able to use nm-connection-editor with only the keyfile
> > plugin to create the system connection with ease and resulted in this
> > configuration:  
> >
> > [802-1x]
> > eap=peap;
> > identity=xxxxx
> > phase2-auth=mschapv2
> > password=yyyyy
> >
> > [802-11-wireless-security]
> > key-mgmt=wpa-eap
> >
> > After updating the rpms[2] using nm-connection-editor results in this
> > configuration:
> >
> > [802-11-wireless-security]
> > key-mgmt=wpa-eap
> >
> > [802-1x]
> > eap=peap;
> > identity=xxxxx
> > phase2-auth=mschapv2
> > password-flags=1
> > system-ca-certs=true
> >
> >
> > I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do about this, any help or pointers
> > would be grateful. I understand that password-flags=1 hands this over to
> > an auth agent for the secrets, gnome keyring is running but with an
> > empty password. I clicked ignore when prompted for the certs file. I've
> > tried to downgrade back to [1] but with the same results. Am I running
> > into some polkit issue here? What other dependencies might I have to
> > downgrade to return to the same functionality?
>
> If you change password-flags to "0" and put the password back in, does
> the editor preserve it?
>
> Dan

When I have access to that network again that is one of the first things
I was going to try. I'll let you know how I make out.

Thanks a bunch,

Jerry 

> > Thank,
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> > 1.
> > NetworkManager-0.9.7.0-8.git20121004.fc18.armv7hl
> > network-manager-applet-0.9.7.0-4.git20121016.fc18.armv7hl
> > NetworkManager-glib-0.9.7.0-8.git20121004.fc18.armv7hl
> > nm-connection-editor-0.9.7.0-4.git20121016.fc18.armv7hl
> >
> > 2.
> > NetworkManager-0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18.armv7hl
> > network-manager-applet-0.9.8.1-3.git20130430.fc18.armv7hl
> > NetworkManager-glib-0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18.armv7hl
> > nm-connection-editor-0.9.8.1-3.git20130430.fc18.armv7hl
> >
> >
> >
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