Bug 1344688 - NetworkManager 802.1x security not working
Summary: NetworkManager 802.1x security not working
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lubomir Rintel
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-10 11:22 UTC by Mirco Drick
Modified: 2017-08-08 14:48 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-08-08 14:48:41 UTC
Type: Bug
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GNOME Bugzilla 769661 0 None None None 2016-08-11 13:55:39 UTC

Description Mirco Drick 2016-06-10 11:22:16 UTC
Description of problem:
at our company we use 802.1x security for wired connections. 802.1x settings are PEAP authentication, no CA certificate, automativ PEAP version and MSCHAPv2 inner authentication.
When trying to connect to the network the password dialogue pops up, when entering the password and pressing ok the password dialogue pops up again, nothing else happens.

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

[root@midr-fedora-lap ~]# rpm -qa|grep Network
NetworkManager-1.2.0-0.8.rc2.fc24.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure 802.1x security as described above
2. connect to network
3. enter user password

Actual results:
user password is asked again and again

Expected results:
Network connection gets established

Additional info:
this works fine under Fedora 23. Setting 802.1x directly in the wpa_supplicant config/cli does get the connection to be established. Also the same behavior seems to take place in recent Ubuntu 16.04 where it also works in prior ubuntu release, so it looks like the might be a general NetworkManager problem in version 1.2

Some log snippets from NetworkManager I collected after setting debug output:

Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4353] agent-manager: req[0x5632b9077bd0, :1.21/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000]: agent returned secrets for request [0x5632b8fe1a00/"802.1x"/"802-1x"]
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4402] device[0x5632b8fcc4a0] (enp0s25): activation-stage: schedule activate_stage1_device_prepare,2 (id 20154)
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4403] device[0x5632b8fcc4a0] (enp0s25): activation-stage: invoke activate_stage1_device_prepare,2 (id 20154)
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <info>  [1465557484.4403] device (enp0s25): state change: need-auth -> prepare (reason 'none') [60 40 0]
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4406] device[0x5632b8fcc4a0] (enp0s25): no MAC address change needed
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4406] device[0x5632b8fcc4a0] (enp0s25): activation-stage: schedule activate_stage2_device_config,2 (id 20158)
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4406] device[0x5632b8fcc4a0] (enp0s25): activation-stage: complete activate_stage1_device_prepare,2 (id 20154)
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4408] device[0x5632b8fcc4a0] (enp0s25): activation-stage: invoke activate_stage2_device_config,2 (id 20158)
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <info>  [1465557484.4409] device (enp0s25): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <info>  [1465557484.4418] device (enp0s25): Activation: (ethernet) connection '802.1x' has security, but secrets are required.
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <info>  [1465557484.4419] device (enp0s25): state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none') [50 60 0]
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4436] agent-manager: req[0x5632b9077bd0, :1.21/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000]: agent allowed for secrets request [0x5632b90481b0/"802.1x"/"802-1x"]
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4436] device[0x5632b8fcc4a0] (enp0s25): activation-stage: complete activate_stage2_device_config,2 (id 20158)
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4442] agent-manager: req[0x5632b9077bd0, :1.21/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000]: agent getting secrets for request [0x5632b90481b0/"802.1x"/"802-1x"]
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4443] agent-manager: ([0x5632b90481b0/"802.1x"/"802-1x"]) request has system secrets; checking agent :1.21 for MODIFY
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4443] auth: call[175]: CheckAuthorization(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.settings.modify.system), subject=unix-process[pid=1606, uid=1000, start=1612]
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4647] auth: call[175]: CheckAuthorization succeeded: (is_authorized=1, is_challenge=0)
Jun 10 13:18:04 midr-fedora-lap NetworkManager[1189]: <debug> [1465557484.4648] agent-manager: req[0x5632b9077bd0, :1.21/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000]: agent [0x5632b90481b0/"802.1x"/"802-1x"] MODIFY check result YES

Comment 1 Mirco Drick 2016-08-12 06:14:49 UTC
Update: This might be a gui only problem, must likely with the credentials part. I found that when set all 802 security options in the gui and save the connection details, and then run nmcli --ask connection up <interface> from the command line everything works fine onward.

Comment 2 Beniamino Galvani 2016-08-18 16:17:27 UTC
Fixed:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769661

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