<table><tr><td style="">catherinez created this revision.<br />catherinez added a reviewer: Plasma.<br />catherinez added a project: Plasma.<br />Restricted Application added a subscriber: plasma-devel.<br />catherinez requested review of this revision.
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results in a password dialog being shown and then a failure no matter<br />
what is entered. This is because the agent authentication method<br />
does not expect a password to be returned but instead expects<br />
a path to the agent socket to be sent. The upstream nm-ssh implements<br />
this, but KDE's plasma-nm does not.</p>
<p>This change implements the behavior that nm-ssh-service expects<br />
from the frontend, and allows using SSH agent authentication with<br />
SSH VPNs set up by plasma-nm.</p>
<p>I fully admit that this change is a bit hacky in that it hardcodes nm-ssh<br />
specific functionality in the core of plasma-nm, but I feel it could be<br />
fine for the following reasons:</p>
<p>It fixes completely broken functionality at a relatively low cost.<br />
There is similar hardcoded behavior already e.g. for OpenConnect<br />
in PasswordDialog::initializeUi().<br />
Doing this properly requires a major refactor of plasma-nm, that is<br />
pulling VpnUiPlugin creation into SecretAgent instead of<br />
PasswordDialog where it is now, and I have neither time nor<br />
grasp of plasma-nm codebase to do this.</p>
<p>Fixes <a href="https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh/issues/37" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh/issues/37</a>.<br />
Fixes <a href="https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh/issues/54" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/danfruehauf/NetworkManager-ssh/issues/54</a>.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R116 Plasma Network Management Applet</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D14035">https://phabricator.kde.org/D14035</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>AFFECTED FILES</strong><div><div>kded/secretagent.cpp</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>catherinez, Plasma<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>plasma-devel, Plasma, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart<br /></div>