[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#817903: network-manager: doesn't recognize WPA* Enterprise private key file with .p12 extension

[Giacomo Boffi]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.1.91-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I want to configure a wireless connection provided by
my institution --- meaning that I have no degrees of freedom
in what I have to do to complete the procedure.

That said, the institution gives me two files, a CA certificate

  ca.pem

and a private key file with an associated private key

  wifiCert.p12

I had placed those files in a generic subfolder (~/Documents/.certificates)
and then I tried to configure the connection using Network Manager.

I access the Network Connections window, I Add a new (wireless)
connection, in the Editing New Connection window I access the Wi-Fi
Security tab, select WPA & WPA2 Enterprise from the Security menu, I use
the CA Certificate menu to access the ~/Documents/.certificates folder,
I'm shown the ca.pem file, I select it and proceed, using the Private key
menu, I access ~/Documents/.certificates, at the bottom I see the list of 
correct file extensions (comprising the .p12 extension!) but the file
wifiCert.p12 is not shown (no file at all is shown as selectable).

At his point I cannot complete the configuration.

I have to mention that this is a new laptop (my previuos laptop
has been stolen) and that on my previous laptop I configured the same
wireless network w/o any problem. Previous laptop, btw, was running sid as well.

thank you in advance,
                          gb

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.10.8-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.29
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.3-9
ii  libbluetooth3          5.36-1
ii  libc6                  2.22-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.46.2-3
ii  libgnutls30            3.4.9-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         230-3
ii  libmm-glib0            1.4.12-1
ii  libndp0                1.4-2
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.18-3
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.27-1
ii  libnm0                 1.1.91-1
ii  libpam-systemd         229-2
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-14.1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-14.1
ii  libreadline6           6.3-8+b4
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.52.2-1
ii  libsystemd0            229-2
ii  libteamdctl0           1.23-1
ii  libuuid1               2.27.1-4
ii  lsb-base               9.20160110
ii  policykit-1            0.105-14.1
ii  udev                   229-2
ii  wpasupplicant          2.3-2.3

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda            3.13-1+b1
ii  dnsmasq-base    2.75-1
ii  iptables        1.6.0-2
ii  iputils-arping  3:20150815-2
ii  modemmanager    1.4.12-1
ii  ppp             2.4.7-1+2

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  libteam-utils  <none>

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