Hi Alok, > > with the ConnMan 1.0 release we introduced a purely agent based handling > > of passphrases. The term passphrases here applies to WEP and WPA/WPA2 > > pre-shared keys. ConnMan does store (and only these) by itself so they > > are available when attempting to reconnect. And we do store them since > > there is no point in trying to protect something that is not bound to a > > user or actually extra secure. They are pre-shared keys in the first > > place. > > > > Now the question now arises on how to handle the case where the > > passphrase inside an access point got changed and the next connection > > attempt will fail. Currently we just request a new passphrase from the > > user. However the user experience requests prefers to be able to show > > the user the previous passphrase or at least a starred out version of > > it. And I tend to agree with this. > > > > The idea would be that the agent request adds an informational category > > and we can provide the old passphrase value. > > > > > Sounds good to me. but will we prompt the passphrase on every connection > attempt or just when we get a invalid key error? I really dont like NM when > it pops up the passphrase dialogue everytime i connect to a known AP.
only if something goes wrong. Like for example you changed the passphrase in the AP. If everything goes fine, we will not bother the user a second time. Regards Marcel _______________________________________________ connman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman
