[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#637139: network-manager-vpnc: can't start vpn if vpn server uses single des encription

ez eugene.zapolsky at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 19:14:39 UTC 2011


Package: network-manager-vpnc
Version: 0.8.4-1
Severity: normal

Trouble is in call of vpnc without --enable-1des option.

VPNC_DEBUG=1 /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-vpnc-service
/usr/sbin/vpnc: peer selected (single) DES as "encrytion" method.
This algorithm is considered to weak today
If your vpn concentrator admin still insists on using DES
use the "--enable-1des" option.
** (nm-vpnc-service:23633): WARNING **: <WARN>  vpnc_watch_cb(): vpnc exited
with error code 1

When I had added that option to nm-vpnc-service.c and built the package,
trouble disappeared.

 diff -c network-manager-vpnc-0.8.4/src/nm-vpnc-service.c ../network-manager-
vpnc-0.8.4/src/nm-vpnc-service.c
*** network-manager-vpnc-0.8.4/src/nm-vpnc-service.c    2011-04-05
19:31:00.000000000 +0300
--- ../network-manager-vpnc-0.8.4/src/nm-vpnc-service.c 2011-08-08
21:45:31.000000000 +0300
***************
*** 281,286 ****
--- 281,287 ----
        g_ptr_array_add (vpnc_argv, (gpointer) (*vpnc_binary));
        g_ptr_array_add (vpnc_argv, (gpointer) "--non-inter");
        g_ptr_array_add (vpnc_argv, (gpointer) "--no-detach");
+       g_ptr_array_add (vpnc_argv, (gpointer) "--enable-1des");
        g_ptr_array_add (vpnc_argv, (gpointer) "-");
        g_ptr_array_add (vpnc_argv, NULL);



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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_UA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=ru_UA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager-vpnc depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.13-14       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.4.14-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.94-4        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.28.6-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1            0.8.4.0-2     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-glib2                0.8.4.0-2     network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                0.8.4.0-2     network management framework (shar
ii  vpnc                       0.5.3r449-2.1 Cisco-compatible VPN client

network-manager-vpnc recommends no packages.

network-manager-vpnc suggests no packages.

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