Bug 692786

Summary: NetworkManager-pptp won't connect / password not persisting in connections editor
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it>
Component: NetworkManager-pptpAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: dcbw, jadailyjr
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Brendan Jones 2011-04-01 07:07:22 UTC
Created attachment 489310 [details]
xsession-errors

Description of problem:

I'm having trouble connecting to a Windows VPN using PPTP. According to syslog the authentication is failing. 

The connections editor seems unable to persist the password I enter in and PAP authentication fails. I am able to edit the connection settings from the network applet in GNOME 3, however upon re-editing the password is displayed as '(null)' rather than the password I entered. Deleting/re-adding the connection does not seem to help.

I also tried leaving the password blank so that I would be prompted to enter credentials but this did not happen. I can not see any related passwords in seahorse either. 

I'm not sure where these settings live now, but dconf-editor is seg-faulting - I will link another bug here if required.

Behaviour is the same in XFCE using nm-applet

Also a new entry appears in the applet menu every time I edit the VPN connections.

Fedora 15 - continuous upgrade from Alpha .

I have attached syslog and .xsession-errors. 

1:NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.995-1.fc15.x86_64
1:NetworkManager-0.8.997-6.git20110328.fc15.x86_64
NetworkManager-openconnect-0.8.1-7.git20110326.fc15.x86_64
1:NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.995-1.fc15.x86_64
1:NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.995-1.fc15.x86_64

Comment 1 Brendan Jones 2011-04-01 07:08:09 UTC
Created attachment 489311 [details]
syslog

Comment 2 Brendan Jones 2011-04-02 03:26:11 UTC
Dan,

should this be fixed by NetworkManager-0.8.997-8.git20110331.fc15? I am not seeing any change.

Comment 3 Brendan Jones 2011-04-02 15:15:10 UTC
Created attachment 489594 [details]
NetworkManager debug output

I've attached the output of running NetworkManager with debugging enabled. It looks like the agent cannot receive the secret for authentication. I have replaced username and IP address with **hidden**.

Comment 4 John Daily Jr 2011-04-03 15:01:22 UTC
I'm also experiencing this issue. If you need debug information or time to troubleshoot I am available.

Thanks!

John

Comment 5 John Daily Jr 2011-04-03 15:29:38 UTC
It look's like this may have been patched according to the following. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-March/msg00207.html

Is there any way we can get the latest version of NetworkManager-pptp pushed to updates testing? 

Regards,
John

Comment 6 Brendan Jones 2011-04-03 22:02:42 UTC
Thanks for digging up this patch - I can confirm that it works.

I have rebuilt it here: http://bsjones.fedorapeople.org/NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.995a-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm

DISCLAIMER: this is not endorsed by the maintainers - so use at your own risk.

Comment 7 Brendan Jones 2011-04-07 23:10:12 UTC
NetworkManager-pptp.x86_64 fixes this issue for me.