[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#855348: network-manager-openvpn-gnome: Cannot use private key that has no password

[Eric Volker]

Package: network-manager-openvpn-gnome
Version: 0.9.10.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

I have a pk12 package file generated by pfSense to configure the OpenVPN
client with. When I attempt to import the file into the Network Manager
OpenVPN GUI, I am forced to enter a private key password, even though the
private key has NO password. This results in the OpenVPN client failing to 
connect. I tried specifying a bogus password to force the client to display
a password prompt where I could hopefully enter a blank password, but that
doesn't happen - the connection silently fails. The Save button will not
become active without entering a password. I'm sure this is not a 
configuration issue with the OpenVPN server, because the Windows OpenVPN
client will connect to the server and pass traffic even without a 
key password.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn-gnome depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0              2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                    2.19-18+deb8u7
ii  libcairo-gobject2        1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2
ii  libcairo2                1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.8.22-0+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.102-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0       2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.42.1-1+b1
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1          0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnm-glib4              0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnm-gtk0               0.9.10.0-2
ii  libnm-util2              0.9.10.0-7
ii  libpango-1.0-0           1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0      1.36.8-3
ii  libsecret-1-0            0.18-1+b1
ii  network-manager-openvpn  0.9.10.0-1

network-manager-openvpn-gnome recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn-gnome suggests no packages.

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