[pkg-wicd-maint] Bug#916708: python-wicd: misleading error message "Bad password"

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2018-12-17 19:08:32 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On some wireless network with authentication, I systematically got an
> error "Bad password". Thus I spent hours trying to find the problem
> related to my password, with the impossibility to find the cause of
> this issue.
> 
> With the wpasupplicant upgrade last week-end, it made clear that the
> issue (solved with this upgrade) was not the password, but the TLS
> version.
> 
> This error message should be changed to "Authentication failed" (which
> covers more issues than just a bad password), or something similar.

FYI, this error can also occur when the quality of the wifi is
too low, so that one internally gets an early disconnection.
Nothing related to a bad password!

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