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Bug 560230 - Import VPN group passwords from PCF files
Import VPN group passwords from PCF files
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 547582
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: VPN: vpnc
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Dan Williams
Dan Williams
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-11-10 21:29 UTC by Steve Brown
Modified: 2008-11-11 21:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Steve Brown 2008-11-10 21:29:16 UTC 
The PCF import feature is extremely useful.  It would be even better if NetworkManager could import the saved group passwords as well.  This would allow a seamless transition from Cisco VpnClient to NetworkManager/vpnc.

For example, the Cisco PCF profile saves the group password in encoded form:
GroupPwd= #s3cret_p4ssw0rd
enc_GroupPwd=DEADBEEF348902739102957

The original plaintext password is easily forgotten or lost since the user may have configured the VPN years ago.  Without an import feature, a user must contact his/her admin or dig up long-lost documentation for the VPN in question.

A GPL'ed implementation of the decoding algorithm is online at:
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode

It seems trivial to hook this into nm-vpnc.c .
Comment 1 Steve Brown 2008-11-11 21:23:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 547582 ***