Bug 358320

Summary: Password query on every network connection fail
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: sedrubal <kde>
Component: Networking in generalAssignee: Lukáš Tinkl <lukas>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: minor CC: bshah, jgrulich, kde, mklapetek, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: A useless passphrase input window appears on failures

Description sedrubal 2016-01-21 18:17:41 UTC 
Every time a connection can not established because of any fails, a passphrase input window appears instead of an error message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to a network which produces a fail (e.g. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1300793 or when the network does not support the given 802.1X authentication method or what ever)
2. wait...
3. wait...

Actual Results:  
A dialogue box appears to enter "A password" which makes no sense... e.g. for 802.1X with TTLS it should better ask for username and password

Expected Results:  
Bat actually an error message should appear somewhere

I'll append a low quality video
Comment 1 sedrubal 2016-01-21 18:19:08 UTC 
Created attachment 96770 [details]
A useless passphrase input window appears on failures

Of course entering a password here does not establish a connection to the network....
Comment 2 Jan Grulich 2017-10-02 08:04:31 UTC 
I don't think there is a way how to fix this. NM will not ask for missing or wrong username as you cannot tell what authentication method should be used and whether username was wrong.
Comment 3 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:23:36 UTC 
Bulk transfer as requested in T17796