Bug 720281

Summary:	nm-connection-editor has problem with changing auto-connection option
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Zdenek Kabelac 2011-07-11 10:09:55 UTC

Description of problem:

My wifi connection was trying to auto connect to Wifi connection (even when it's been already wire-connected).

When open nm-connection-editor with Wireless tab - and I check this connection - I could see 'auto connect' toggle on - so it's quite easy to turn it off - however the 'save' button is ghosted and this change can't be saved.

After discussion with jklimes - the problem is that some wifi connection needs also password field filled which has been also this case - (WPA connection without entered password) - when I've disabled WPA for this connection - 'save' has been made 'cliable'.

After more checking with few more wifi connection - it appears that some combination now allow to use 'Ask for password every time' - which could be probably added also to WPA (when the user doesn't want to keep password stored in any file on his box).

I believe my problem was created by removal of some unsable gnome key-wallet file (after some gnome rawhide update) - that's why password was not there.
Though I'm considering perfectly legal to have WPA connection without storing password - and NM should ask for it upon connection - there is no reason to not allow changing auto-connection status if the password is missing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.9997-5.git20110702.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create WPA connection with password
2. remove pwd physically from disk (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-connection
3. play with nm-connection-editor

Actual results:

Expected results:
nm-connection-editor should support work with WPA/... connections without password.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 14:22:40 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

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