0003962: NetworkManager rejects 63 character pass keys for wireless network

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0003962

[CentOS-5] -OTHER

minor

always

2009-11-02 02:50

2009-11-03 16:24

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zakarpatska

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normal

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open

Status

feedback

Product Version

5.4

Summary

0003962: NetworkManager rejects 63 character pass keys for wireless network

Description

I'm running a wireless network using WPA2 encryption with AES. When I try to connect with a 63 character wireless pass key the NetworkManager for CentOS 5.4 fails to connect to the wireless network. If I disable NetworkManager and use wpa_supplicant and dhclient with the same 63 character pass key with CentOS 5.4 I am able to connect to the wireless network without problems. I was also able to use a 63 character pass key with the NetworkManager in CentOS 5.3.

If I use a 62 character pass key with CentOS 5.4 then NetworkManager works fine and I am able to connect to the wireless network. The problem occurs only if the pass key is 63 characters in length.

From the /var/log/messages file on CentOS 5.4:
nm_supplicant_config_add_setting_wireless_security(): Invalid PSK length 63: not between 8 and 63 characters inclusive.

Additional details of the log are included in the 'Additional Information' section.

Additional Information

The relevant section of the /var/log/messages file is included below:

Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'Auto xxxxxxxxx' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'xxxxxxxxx'
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_supplicant_config_add_setting_wireless_security(): Invalid PSK length 63: not between 8 and 63 characters inclusive.
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <WARN> build_supplicant_config(): Couldn't add 802-11-wireless-security setting to supplicant config.
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <WARN> real_act_stage2_config(): Activation (wlan0/wireless): couldn't build wireless configuration.
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 9
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (xxxxxxxxx)
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> Marking connection 'Auto xxxxxxxxx' invalid.
Nov 1 18:59:34 cnlaptop NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed.

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(0010236) range (administrator) 2009-11-02 20:04	That one looks like an error which should be reported at our upstream - and I haven't found a bug regarding that while searching https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ [^] Thanks!

(0010251) zakarpatska (reporter) 2009-11-03 16:00	Is this something that I should report at upstream, or is this something the CentOS team is going to report? I'm new at this so I'm not familiar with the procedure of reporting bugs to upstream. Thanks.

(0010252) zakarpatska (reporter) 2009-11-03 16:22	I've reported this bug upstream at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532723 [^] Thanks.

(0010253) range (administrator) 2009-11-03 16:24	Thank you!

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2009-11-02 02:50	zakarpatska	New Issue
2009-11-02 20:04	range	Note Added: 0010236
2009-11-02 20:04	range	Assigned To	=> range
2009-11-02 20:04	range	Status	new => feedback
2009-11-03 16:00	zakarpatska	Note Added: 0010251
2009-11-03 16:22	zakarpatska	Note Added: 0010252
2009-11-03 16:24	range	Note Added: 0010253