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If you set a password "Store the password for all users" (or only for this user), it won't be loaded at subsequent connection edit and will be lost when you save the connection. There's an upstream commit that needs to be backported: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/?id=62683047c5cd804c2b275501a65f80181a3883c5
By the way the network panel doesn't seem to be in a very good shape in RHEL-7. E.g. it spews a lots of criticals when being closed and more. Rui Mantos fixed that all upstream; ideally the following commits should be picked too (perhaps the summary of this bug report can be made general enough to cover that...): 2e7b23a network: Fix a crash when clicking to forget a VPN on the editor d57be89 network: Avoid warnings while closing connection editor 2e6149b network: Don't try to get secrets for new connections
*** Bug 1072869 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in control-center-3.14.5-17
Created attachment 1171321 [details] VPN setup in GNOME control center in RHEL 7.2
Created attachment 1171322 [details] VPN setup in GNOME control center in RHEL 7.3 latest nightly build
TEST SETUP 1 On VM running under RHEL 7.2 Workstation x86_64 Released, with GNOME desktop environment. Component version: 3.14.5-8.el7 TEST PROCEDURE 1 Log in to GNOME session. Create new VPN connection using IPSec. Enter VPN parameters. Set the user and group password to be remembered. The bug appears. See screenshots. TEST SETUP 2 On VM running under RHEL 7.3 Workstation x86_64 Latest nightly build, with GNOME desktop environment. Component version: 3.14.5-17.el7 TEST PROCEDURE 2 Log in to GNOME session. Create new VPN connection using IPSec. Enter VPN parameters. Set the user and group password to be stored. Connection can be established and closed without issues. All parameters of the VPN connection can be edited and the stored again. The bug in not present. See screenshots. RESULTS Updating: control-center from: 3.14.5-8.el7 to: 3.14.5-17.el7 has fixed the bug.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2150.html