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

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 16:37 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, we've toyed with outlining fields that are wrong in red, which I
think would be helpful in this case.  We try to do that in the
connection-editor with routes (4cad3c27ebd939ea3d7fd5782c19b921b50463a1
and 5a355d4e7e83432b98a18d639019a33ee6764e48) but that appears to be
broken right now due to a GTK+ bug.

Dan