Bug 446920 (WPA-PEM)

Summary: NetworkManager can't find .pem files
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alan Escuredo <alanescu>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: dcbw, frlinux, jns, presgas, wtogami
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Description Alan Escuredo 2008-05-16 16:51:47 UTC
Description of problem:
When I try to connect to a WPA Enterprise wireless network, NetworkManager can't
find any CA .pem files in the specified route.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.7.0

How reproducible:
In NetworkManager applet, connect to a WPA encrypted network and try to select a
.pem file in the specified route. It doesn't appear.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
No files in directory.

Expected results:
Some .pem files recognized.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Alan Escuredo 2008-05-16 19:06:15 UTC
I forgot to add that this annoying bug happens on Fedora 9.

2.6.22.17-0.1-default

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2008-07-03 11:17:17 UTC
Do your PEM files have the textual representation of the certificate before it
has the actual binary certificate data?  Basically, how many bytes of the file
are before the "--------- BEGIN CERTIFICATE -------------" string?

Comment 3 Robert Freeman-Day 2008-07-07 18:14:33 UTC
I can confirm a similar issue.  Now, I just go to /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem and try
to point it at that.  The terminal shows me it is there, but I cannot see it in
nm-applet's file browser.  It looks like the cert.pem file is a large
concatenated list of certificate authorities with the actual certs  padded with
what you call a textual representation of the certificate.  

Could this be actually an issue with openssl since "yum whatprovides
/etc/pki/tls/cert.pem" gives me openssl

Going to see if Fedora 8 acts similarly.

Comment 4 Robert Freeman-Day 2008-07-08 12:50:55 UTC
I have confirmed same behavior with Fedora 8.  We have a wireless network
similar to the setup here:  http://www.divms.uiowa.edu/help/wireless/fedora9.html

We need to point our "CA Certificate" to the specific Thawte CA (which other
distros have as separate files for each CA), but cannot do that.  I do not wish
to download the CA from Thawte itself because I want it to be maintained from
the package manager...and hence I also do not want to export the CA from the FF
browser.

Comment 5 Jessica Sterling 2009-03-05 17:02:37 UTC
This bug has been triaged

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Comment 6 Robert Freeman-Day 2009-05-06 15:09:15 UTC
Dan,

There may be an additional rub with this.  I see that this may very well be fixed with recent versions of 10 on up.  Now I cannot get this pem bundle provided by ca-certificates to be accepted in Network Manager.  I reported this recently:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=498323

Why can't the CA be separated into separate pem files instead of a big bundle like SUSE and the deb based distros?

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Comment 8 FRLinux 2009-06-16 17:33:07 UTC
Hello, I have the same behavior on a Fedora 11 system : 

[frlinux@vaio ~]$ uname -a
Linux vaio 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:27:08 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[frlinux@vaio ~]$ rpm -qa |grep Manager
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.x86_64
NetworkManager-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.x86_64
NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.1-4.git20090414.fc11.x86_64
[frlinux@vaio ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)

You can find a screenshot of the issue here : http://frlinux.net/weblog/fedora11_eduroam.png

Let me know if you need more there.
Cheers,
Steph

Comment 9 FRLinux 2009-06-16 17:35:14 UTC
Sorry actually, the certificate was incompletely pasted... It works!

Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 17:52:42 UTC
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