Ubuntu
network-manager package

OpenVPN OTP replaces the ordinary password

Bug #1886728 reported by Thomas Bjørnson Larsen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
NetworkManager
Fix Released
Unknown
network-manager (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

When OpenVPN has One-time password (OTP) enabled, and the user connects, a dialog asks the user to enter the One-time password (OTP) and press ok. This action replaces the ordinary "long term" password with the OTP. This causes annoyance as the next login will fail because the password is wrong and the user has to enter both the password and the OTP the next time they log in.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-keyring 3.36.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-40.44-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jul 8 01:07:18 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-03-23 (106 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
SourcePackage: gnome-keyring
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-11 (57 days ago)

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Thomas Bjørnson Larsen (larsen1000) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, the issue has also been reported upstream on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/97

affects: gnome-keyring (Ubuntu) → network-manager (Ubuntu)
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Thomas M Steenholdt (tmus) wrote :

This is still an issue in Ubuntu 21.04 (development, as of March 30, 2021)

It looks like people have been complaining about this for years, and while some people have tried to fix it, those fixes never made it in. Surely it must be of some type of urgency to support 2FA one-time passwords in the primary network management solution in Ubuntu?

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in network-manager:
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in network-manager:
status: New → Fix Released
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