[Bug 262191] Re: [regression] VPNC plugin - no option to only save group password available

[Matt Trudel]

Yes, it's a first take on exactly what Dan Williams suggested: password
types in the configuration dialog, and then saving passwords depending
on that. I've added something so that as long as it's not a "rekey" or
"reprompt" for the passwords, then it only asks for what's necessary.

Take this use case: I'm connecting to my work network, which requires a
static group password, which i generally want to save in the keyring,
and a dynamic, always-changing user password (SecurID). I set the group
password to use "Default", the user password to "OTP" in the
configuration dialog (same place as for the gateway and all of that
stuff), then save. network-manager should only ask for the securid
passcode, the auth-dialog has been modified so that only the user
password, in that case, is asked for. Same could apply if the group
password was dynamic, or if both passwords were.

Anyway, I'm not saying that this is the way to go, it's just a
suggestion I brought up upstream. I think the best course of action
currently should be to just patch network-manager-vpnc so that it's at
the point where it was in Hardy, and then when and IF the other patch is
accepted upstream, then we could integrate it (Jaunty or later).

Of course, another option would be, given enough outside testing, to
directly integrate the password types patch in Jaunty Jackalope, and
that will bring in an additional case to have the patch accepted
upstream (I guess) but that's really not my call; I'm not the upstream
maintainer, or the Ubuntu package maintainer, and not even MOTU. Hence
why Ubuntu-Universe-Sponsors are subscribed, and we'd be theoretically
waiting for Alexander Sack or Soren Hansen's input (and possible code
review) before the initial, regression-fixing patch can be applied to
the network-manager-vpnc package.

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[regression] VPNC plugin - no option to only save group password available
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262191
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