[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#377713: kvpnc: Cisco connection does not work

[Frédéric Tronel]

Package: kvpnc
Version: 0.8.5.1-1
Severity: normal

I'm trying to use kvpnc to connect to my corporate network. We are using a cisco gateway.
I have correctly configured the connection profile (passwords, gateway are correct, etc).
We are not using a certificate, but only a preshared key.
When I try to initiate the connection to the VPN, vpnc client is started by kvpnc with correct arguments.
However nothing happens and after a while kvpnc raises a connection timeout. If I try to start
vpnc directly on a terminal with the same argument, it perfectly works. The problem seems to be related with the way vpnc is
expecting user password to be entered on the terminal. kvpnc seems to be unable to give it
the password. This may explain the timeout. I can strace kvpnc during the connection initialization, if it can
help. Let me know.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.20
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR)

Versions of packages kvpnc depends on:
ii  kdebase-bin                 4:3.5.3-2    core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii  kdelibs4c2a                 4:3.5.3-1    core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libacl1                     2.2.39-1     Access control list shared library
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.17-1     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libattr1                    2.4.32-1     Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudio2                   1.8-1        The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6                       2.3.6-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1              2.3.2-7      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.2.1-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgamin0 [libfam0]         0.1.7-3      Client library for the gamin file 
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.1.1-7    GCC support library
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.2-1      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0               1.2-1        library for common error values an
ii  libice6                     1:1.0.0-3    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11                    0.6.3-1      GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-13        The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt                   3:3.3.6-2    Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                      1:1.0.0-4    X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6                  4.1.1-7      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.0-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                 1.1.5.2-5    X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                    1:1.0.0-4    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                     2.1.8.2-8    FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                      1:1.0.0-5    X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1                1:1.0.1-4    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                  2:1.1.0.2-4  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.0.2-4  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                      1:1.0.0-5    X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  module-init-tools           3.2.2-3      tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                    2.4.27.0-6   Linux module utilities
ii  net-tools                   1.60-17      The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  psmisc                      22.2-1       Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-12   compression library - runtime

kvpnc recommends no packages.

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