[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#731444: WPA2 Enterprise network passwords don't save for lightdm session

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.0

My university campus uses the Eduroam (https://www.eduroam.org)
standard for its Wi-Fi access points. I have saved my authentication
details for this access point ujsing standard network manager and it
connects automatically as such after a return from suspend. When
booting the machine and getting to LightDM, however, I 
am prompted to enter my password for the Eduroam access point. 

I stumbled upon this configuration file, which goes in
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/eduroam:

[ipv6]
method=auto
ip6-privacy=2

[connection]
id=eduroam
uuid=2fb6ac81-bb1c-44df-ba87-f0ec95e3d0d1
type=802-11-wireless
timestamp=1349875620

[802-11-wireless]
ssid=eduroam
mode=infrastructure
security=802-11-wireless-security

[802-1x]
eap=ttls;
identity=<change this>@studserv.uni-leipzig.de
phase2-auth=pap
password=<change this>

[ipv4]
method=auto

[802-11-wireless-security]
key-mgmt=wpa-eap

Mine was almost identical, but did not have the line which starts with
"password". After introducing this line (and deleting two other lines
that appeared in my configuration file but not here) now after
rebooting "eduroam" does not ask for a password any more.

So it seems that the bug is that after editing the connection in the
NetworkManager GUI this password line is not saved in the system
configuration file, if I understand correctly how nm works.

-- 
Walter Garcia-Fontes