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NM previously only cleared secrets when the VPN service daemon quit, and the service daemons are on a 10-second inactivity timer. So if the user tried to re-activate the failed VPN connection within 10 seconds the old secrets would get used, which clearly isn't what we want. Ensure that whenever the VPN connection fails or disconnects, we ask the settings service for secrets again the next time. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=bc653d222519965e552736b0ab30dc1b40539152 We need this patch in RHEL as soon as possible.
Just to be sure, when testing you might want to do steps 7 - 10 a few times.
rh528425-clear-vpn-secrets-on-failure.patch
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