Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: network-manager
There was a bug similar to this reported previously, but it seems to
have popped up again, except in a more severe case. My wireless internet
connection has a WPA2 password (Personal Version). Whenever I enter my
passphrase into NetworkManager, it tries to connect for a moment or two,
and then pops up with the password dialog box again (meaning it was the
wrong password). If I click show password it pops up with some kind of
hash of random characters as opposed to the string password. If I
reenter the password, the error simply recurs. In other words, if I try
and enter my WPA passphrase it turns the passphrase into a jumble of
random characters as opposed to just connecting.
I tried fixing it by disabling write access to my keyring for
NetworkManager and its applet. However, what happened then was that it
did the same exact thing as before, except this time the actual password
was in the dialog box, but it still would not connect. I hypothesize
that at some point during the connection process, the applet is taking
whatever key it is given and hashing it or something. When it has access
to the keyring, it writes over the original passphrase with this new
hash. If it does not have access, it will still hash the passphrase, but
when the dialog box pops up it gives the original passphrase (since it
has not been overwritten on the keyring). If I disable WPA on my
wireless connection it works fine (even with the ESSID hidden).
I am currently running Ubuntu jaunty (development branch) 9.04 on Linux
2.6.28-8-generic. I am using version 0.7.1~rc3-0ubuntu1 of the network-
manager package and the same version for network-manager-gnome. I am
also using version 0.6.6-2 of wpasupplicant.
** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Wireless WPA key corrupted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/339046
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