On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:49:32AM +1100, Josh Triplett wrote: > I followed the following steps: > > - Connect to a wired network. > - Click the network-manager-gnome icon, and select "Create New Wireless > Network..." > - Type a network name. > - Select "WPA & WPA2 Personal". > - Click "Show password". > - Paste in a secure password (from pwgen -s 12). > - Click "Create". > - Observe that NetworkManager's icon for the network includes the lock > icon indicating a secure network. > - Attempt to connect to the network from my N900. > - Observe that network icon shows lack of security. > - Observe that I can connect to the network and access the Internet > through the network without providing the previously-specified > password. > > Note that creating a network using WEP results in a WEP-"secured" > network, rather than an unsecured network. This issue only seems to > happen when attempting to create a WPA network.
Investigating further, I discovered that if I use the nm-connection-editor to manually create a shared network with WPA and Infrastructure mode, it doesn't show up as an available network in the "Create New Wireless Network..." dialog. If I change it to Ad-Hoc mode, it shows up. Some searching suggests that problems exist with WPA networks in Ad-Hoc mode, which might explain why NM couldn't manage it. However, it should have failed closed by refusing to create a network, rather than failing open by creating an insecure network. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
