Network Manager not saving OpenVPN password

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This bug also affects focal, it's a network-manager bug fixed in 1.20.6 which we could patch in the packaging while we don't have the .6 package.

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@panfaust or @duarte-rocha, can you test with the n-m from this ppa
https://launchpad.net/~ddstreet/+archive/ubuntu/lp1858092

@ddstreet

Network Manager works with the ppa provided.

Thanks

> Network Manager works with the ppa provided.

thanks for verifying, uploaded to eoan.

Is there a rough timeline when this will be available in eoan?

I can confirm the bug on all my ubuntu 19.10 installs and I have to switch vpns frequently.

Thanks for the great work!

Hi Pete,

I will try to re-check the status of this for eoan today after work. Sorry for the delay, I have been very busy lately ;)

Cheers.

P.S. The bug is indeed fixed in focal.

> Is there a rough timeline when this will be available in eoan?

It's been in the upload queue for Eoan since Jan 8, hopefully it will be reviewed/accepted soon.

Hello Duarte, or anyone else affected,

Accepted network-manager into eoan-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/1.20.4-2ubuntu2.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Tested with network-manager 1.20.4-2ubuntu2.2 from proposed on eoan.

Result: VPN passwords are saved correctly again!

Thank you so much! I built a vpn benchmark script that relies on the password being able to be saved. It uses the nmcli tool to add new connections and set the password.
It can now run again.

Tested it, too. Works now. Thanks for fixing!

Is there an estimation when this will go from proposed to release? I'm working around it by looking up the connections' UID in the Network-Manager configuration and manually adding the corresponding entries in KWallet as of now..

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This bug was fixed in the package network-manager - 1.20.4-2ubuntu2.2

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network-manager (1.20.4-2ubuntu2.2) eoan; urgency=medium

  [ José Manuel Santamaría Lema ]
  * d/p/lp1858092-fix_updating_agent_vpn_secrets.patch:
    - fix VPN password storing (LP: #1858092)

network-manager (1.20.4-2ubuntu2.1) eoan; urgency=medium

  * d/t/killswitches-no-urfkill, d/t/urfkill-integration,
    d/t/wpa-dhclient, d/t/nm.py, d/t/control:
    - skip tests on s390 due to missing wireless kernel support
      (LP: #1855009)
    - skip tests on i386 since there is no i386 kernel anymore,
      so we can't build our custom rfkill test module
      (LP: #1855183)

 -- Dan Streetman <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:45:30 -0500

Can confirm that, after updating from the official repositories (Kubuntu 19.10), saving passwords "for this user only" works as intended again. Thanks!

I'm running Kubuntu 20.04 (NetworkManager 1.22.10) and this problem exists. I have an openconnect VPN and despite enabling "Store passwords", the password is never stored.