Dear all,
since 2 days I can’t connect to the wireless rooter at home. Upon entering the password via the network manager, within 10 seconds I get the error
authorization supplicant time out.
Subsequently the wifi network gets deactivatet and I have to enter the password again.
This type of error I used to have with 15.4 long time ago. However after 100 trials I managed to connect, using the same wireless wifi rooter.
Since the system is a fresh update to 15.5 perhaps one could explain to me, how to set up the wifi.
I turned off the kde passport. Could that be the problem?
If you mean the KDE Password Manager “KWallet” then, yes.
<https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kwalletmanager/kwallet5/index.html>
But, please take note of the ArchWiki entry – <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_Wallet>
- Use Blowfish encryption for the wallet containing the WLAN/WiFi secrets and the e-Mail access passwords.
Is it possible to go about without kwallet. cant’t one configure the wifi with the terminal
OK here is the solution:
1)Disable the kwallet. Btw, whoever developed that an put it in suse - greetings to your mom!
2) sudo nmtui
3) enter password and enjoy!
Yes, there’s a Network Manager CLI tool – “nmcli”
I was trying to puzzle out why you ran the curses equivalent (nmtui) as the user root –
- Please check in ‘/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/’ if the file containing the WLAN/WiFi secret is only accessible by the user “root”.
I suspect that, you’ll notice that, the ASCII text value of the WLAN/WiFi secrets is held in those files as unencrypted plain text.
There are files containing the passwords. 2 for my to wireless accounts.
that wireless problem was a real pain in the neck, i tell you that. 
@john_s_23:
Provided that, those files are only readable by the user “root”, the security implications of the WLAN/WiFi secrets being unencrypted plain text are well known …
yes you are correct, however, the wallet stuff does not work. so, if i am offline, everything is super secure anyway.
Strange – I’ve been using it since Autumn 2002 – SuSE Linux 8.1 …
well, i guess that it hates me. in 2002 i had no idea how to use a pc
I’m not aware that, software wallets or keyrings take notice of the user’s age …