[Bug 474698] Re: vpnc doesn't connect with empty user password.

[Russell Lewis]

That's the "beauty" of the DES card.  You cannot know the next password.
(Obviously there is some algorithm to determine it that the VPN server
and card know, but the idea is that it should not be reverse-engineer-
able.)  I punch in a PIN # and it spits out a password.  3 wrong PIN
numbers and it locks down...

They do make a "soft token" that is essentially a software version of
this card.  However, the problem with a soft token (which only has
Windoze and OSX clients) is that you can only login from your soft token
machine.  I log in from various computers (desktop, laptop, lab
workstation), so the physical card is the only way to keep the correct
state.

As long as I have the option to not save the user password (which
networkmanagement does) and if it prompts me for that password (which it
does not) I'll be able to use this.

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vpnc doesn't connect with empty user password.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474698
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