Re: "Save..." button deactivated, can't create WPA & WPA2 Enterprise connection

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:32:01PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 14:49 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > I've had this problem for awhile now (maybe the last year or 2,
> > certainly Fedora 20 and Fedora 19, and probably Fedora 18 as well).
> >
> > When creating a new Wi-Fi connection:
> >
> > Security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
> > Authentication: TLS
> > User certificate: file in .der format
> > CA certifcate: file in .der format
> > Private key: file in .pem format
> > Private key password: provided
>
> Could you run nm-connection-editor from a terminal and see what output
> it dumps when you type the private key password?

$ nm-connection-editor

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi: 802-11-wireless.ssid: property is missing

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi: 802-11-wireless.ssid: property is missing

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi: 802-11-wireless.ssid: property is missing

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi: 802-11-wireless.ssid: property is missing

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): CRITICAL **: crypto_md5_hash: assertion 'password_len > 0' failed

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Error: couldn't verify private key: 1 private-key

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Error: couldn't verify private key: 1 private-key

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Error: couldn't verify private key: 1 private-key

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Error: couldn't verify private key: 1 private-key

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Error: couldn't verify private key: 1 private-key

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security

** (nm-connection-editor:4150): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wi-Fi Security: Invalid Wi-Fi security


> Next, could you provide the top few lines of the private key .pem file?
> They should look something like this:
>
> -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
> Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
> DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,5FA2D6D6242C26D0
>
> Feel free to obscure the "salt" at the end ofthe DEK-Info line, if that
> line exists for you.

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Dan
>
> > The "Save..." button remains greyed out/deactivated, so there is no
> > way to save the connection.  This happens both when selecting a new
> > Wi-Fi network from the Gnome shell, as well as running
> > nm-connection-editor manually.
> >
> > Is there a workaround so I can create the connection?

So I now know what the problem was this time around.  The passphrase I
was using was incorrect.  Is there any way to provide user feedback
when this happens?

Thanks.