[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#907902: Bug#907902: network-manager-openvpn won't save changes in username or password

[Jape Person]

On 09/03/2018 05:42 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible
> 
> On 9/3/18 23:14, Jape Person wrote:
>> Package: network-manager-openvpn
>> Version: 1.8.4-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>>
>> To duplicate the issue, use Edit Connections function of network-manager.
>>
>> Attempt to edit an imported openvpn configuration. Changes can be made to the
>> user name and password fields, but the Save button on the dialog never becomes
>> active.
> 
> Which program do you use to update the configuration,
> nm-connection-editor, something else?
> If you run that command from the command line, do you get any output?
> Which environment do you run this program, GNOME, KDE etc?
> 
> Is the password saved per user (agent-owned) or system wide?
> 
> 
Sorry, I used the little gtk reporter and didn't notice it wasn't 
including info about the DE.

I'm using Xfce, and editing the configuration using the dialog named 
"Network Connections" that's called by right-clicking the NM icon in the 
notification Area on the panel and choosing Edit Connections.

The program is nm-connection-editory. When issued from within 
xfce4-terminal it results in this output:

wiz at wiz-nuc:~$ nm-connection-editor

(nm-connection-editor:7415): dbind-WARNING **: 18:13:19.754: Couldn't 
register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible 
causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message 
bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the 
network connection was broken.

The software gives no indication that anything is wrong other than the 
fact that the "Editing <name of openvpn configuration file>" dialog that 
comes up doesn't activate the "Save" button when I change the contents 
of the user name or password fields.

That dialog lets you choose between saving the password for the current 
user or for all users. I've been accustomed to using the all users setting.