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xfce4 nm-connection-editor's WPA2 wifi passwords do not persist through reboots #27208

Open 0xABAB opened 7 years ago

0xABAB commented 7 years ago

Issue description

XFCE 4.12 won't remember WPA2 Personal password through reboots, unlike Plasma5, even though the password is saved via some dialog.

This makes XFCE4 on NixOS unattractive to use, because the password needs to be typed in every time the machine is booted.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start nm-connnection-editor in an XFCE4 session on a terminal
  2. Set the correct password (if you type a password which conforms the right grammar you will see a message printed on the terminal (** Message: Connection validates and can be saved ))
  3. Press the Save button.
  4. Reboot
  5. Login to XFCE 4 again.

Technical details

17.03.1482.1b57bf274a (Gorilla)

emmanuelrosa commented 7 years ago

Is this perhaps an upstream problem?

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rantlivelintkale commented 1 year ago

I know the issue is stale, but just ran to this problem myself when switching from Plasma to xfce.

Simply deleting the connection completely with nm-connection-editor and reconnecting fixed it. I assume this has something to do with how the passwords are saved.

Should this be documented in the wiki or elsewhere?

Not sure if this is really a problem that can be fixed upstream easily. (delete all connections if user has switched their nm connection manager?)