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Ive been running Kubuntu 19.10 for some time now and today I tried to setup protonVPN with it. All went well however when I tried to connect it asked me for my password which I had just saved.

Turns out my network manager doesn't save the password when set to save for this user only. Is there any solution to this or is this a known bug?

Lars Bruins Slot
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I was googling around and found this, by clicking on the little icon in password field it seems to keep password. Do not know yet if it will automatically login to VPN. Here is the link and am using second answer. Can't save VPN passwords in Network manager (Xubuntu 16.04) Have tried connecting to VPN, and it is logging automatically now without having to type password. Use the 'store for all users' option.

crip659
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have the same problem and could not fix it, yet.

Please note: I'm talking about kubuntu 19.10 using vpnc. The solution which I use works fine with kubuntu 18.04.

So hints as in the link above do not help because in 19.10 (as int 18.04) a drop down menu is used where I try to use "Store password only for this use (encrypted)" (please note: I have a German install, so this is my translation of what I see in German) which (as already mentioned) works in 18.04 but does not do its job in 19.04.

I can use "Store password for all users (not encrypted)" which stores the password in 19.10 but as the label says the secret information is stored unencrypted in the conf file which is not what one would want to have.

So it would be more than helpful, if this bug would be resolved.

Klaus Fischer
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I'm running network-manager 1.10.6 and I'm having this issue. Applying changes to your connection's password after it's been created and saved for the first time will not have any effects. From my tests it seems that once the VPN is set the first time it won't change the password anymore, blank or not.

What worked for me is the following:

  1. Delete the connection that refuses to store the password.
  2. Import the .ovpn file. Accept when it asks to copy the certificates.
  3. Select the newly created VPN entry. Copy the username and password from the website, don't try to copy the credentials from other servers you've configured in Network Manager. Do not change this view because if you do Network Manager will refuse to save the password.

From then on your password should be saved. For future reference, I'm also storing the password encrypted.

luni3359
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This bug was fixed in the package network-manager - 1.20.4-2ubuntu2.2

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1858092#fromHistory

jasmines
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