[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#444977: network-manager-gnome should not save WPA enterprise passwords unencrypted in gconf

[Ondrej Valek]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.6.5-1
Severity: wishlist


When I connect to WPA Enterprise enabled network, it asks me for all the details (EAP method,certs,identity,passwd 
etc.) and then, upon successful connect, it saves all the informtion into gconf 
/system/networking/wireless/networks/... including plaintext password.

I think it should rather save the password in the keyring the same way as it does when using WEP (and WPA Personal I 
suppose), to make it safer.

This wish might be related to bug #420710 about saving WPA Personal passwords into keyring.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.7
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.1.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.74-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.18.0.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                   1:2.6.2-1  library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.14.0-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0             0.8.1-2    GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                   2.18.0-4   The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                  2.18.1-2   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.10.13-1  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnm-util0                   0.6.5-1    network management framework (shar
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.4-3    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.18.2-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  network-manager               0.6.5-1    network management framework daemo

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  libpam-keyring                0.0.8-6+b1 PAM module that unlock gnome keyri
ii  notification-daemon           0.3.7-1    a daemon that displays passive pop

-- no debconf information