Bug 385406

Summary:	plasma-nm fails to fetch WWAN (mobile broadband) secrets from keychain
Product:	[Plasma] plasma-nm	Reporter:	onitake
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jan Grulich <jgrulich>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	major	CC:	jgrulich
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.10.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description onitake 2017-10-05 17:15:47 UTC

This bug has started occurring a few months ago, not sure in which plasma-nm version. I'm currently on Debian version 4:5.10.5-2 and it is still present.

When I create an NM entry for a mobile broadband modem and set a per-user PIN code and the PPP password, I expect these secrets to be stored in the KDE keychain.
This seems to be the case, but when making a connection, it looks like the NM daemon fails to fetch them back from the keychain. No error message is displayed, but I get several of password dialogues (PIN, superuser, PPP twice).
After entering all these passwords, the connection succeeds, but this is a very bad user experience.

When I open the NM entry in the connection editor KCM, a popup saying "Failed to get secrets for Connection: No agents were available for this request" is displayed.

Comment 1 Jan Grulich 2017-10-23 10:06:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 377473 ***

Comment 2 Jan Grulich 2017-10-24 06:30:20 UTC

This is indeed a different issue and I've been able to reproduce it. From my investigation this looks like an issue in NetworkManager which doesn't ask secret agent to store secrets for gsm connections. If you specify that you want your secrets to be stored unencrypted then it will work.

Comment 3 Jan Grulich 2017-11-02 11:08:42 UTC

NM bug for reference: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789383

Comment 4 onitake 2017-11-02 17:59:57 UTC

Thank you, Jan!