Wifi password not remembered (WPA2)

[Spaceboy]

Every time I try to connect to a network it asks me for the password, even though I gone to kde’s network configuration and entered it multiple times it doesn’t save and I also get the message: FAILED TO GET SECRETS FOR XXX WIFI. No agents were available for this request.

I’m using WPA2 Personal. TP Link WiFi adapter. Worked without issue till today.

Any suggestions

[marel]

KDE network manager asks repeatedly for password

Hi everyone, Just installed successfully 15.2 with the KDE plasma desktop and everything went smoothly as always, except for the WiFi network manager - as often. It won’t connect to the network. Firstly it asks for the root password, then asks repeatedly “For accessing the wireless network you need to provide a password below”. I’m pretty sure that the password is correct because I copied/pasted it with success in another OS. I disabled the KDE wallet and selected the options “All users m…

[arvidjaar]

@Spaceboy

Any suggestions

Show the connection definition.

[Spaceboy]

@arvidjaar

Show the connection definition

Connection definition??

It won’t save password got that particular WiFi network (but will of I use WiFi hotspot on my phone)

I tried deleting from file from /etc/networkmanager/system-connection and entering details again, but same “failed to get secrets error” in KDE l

[arvidjaar]

@Spaceboy

Connection definition??

Yes. The file from /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections.

[deano_ferrari]

Do you have the wifi connection configured as a shared (system connection) or a user-specific connection? With the former, the secrets are stored unencrypted in the (root-owned) connection definition file itself. User-defined connections can make use of the desktop password manager (eg KWallet) to store encrypted secrets instead. Perhaps you need to focus on this aspect and check that the KWallet subsystem is enabled (refer System Settings) to start with.

[deano_ferrari]

@Spaceboy

It won’t save password got that particular WiFi network (but will of I use WiFi hotspot on my phone)

KWalletManager (kwalletmanager5) will show any stored secrets associated with NetworkMamager.

[Spaceboy]

Kwalletmanager is disabled.

[deano_ferrari]

Do you mean KWallet itself? How did you store the passphrase when defining the connection? It means nothing unless you can tell us how the connection was defined (as I already explained). Did you set up the Wi-Fi connection as a ‘shared’ (root-owned) conneciton? You can check this stuff out by using NM itself, or provide the connection definition details as already told.

[Spaceboy]

It’s working now. The issue was I kept missing the popup password dialog : “System policy prevents modification of network settings for all users”
As soon as I put passwords in that, it saved all WiFi passes.

[deano_ferrari]

Yes, that requires root privileges by default. Thanks for the update.