On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 12:19 -0300, José Queiroz wrote: > > > Em 2011/4/5 Dan Williams <[email protected]> > What situations do you need these in? (empty secrets) > > > Said you have a certificate-based VPN connection. As each VPN user > have its own certificate, and certificate's key is password protected, > one can assume that no further authentication is needed.
If the certificate is password protected then there's your secret: the private key password that must be entered to unlock the private key. I'm not really sure what purpose having a blank private key password would solve here, given that it's pretty easy to figure out if the private key is encrypted or not. The openvpn plugin does this, there's a function called "is_encrypted" that checks whether the private key is indeed encrypted, and if so, it tells NM that it needs the private key password to continue. Or an I not understanding? Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
