Thread: [Announce] vpn9c -- vpnc client with launch GUI for n9...I
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2012-08-16 , 06:38
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Originally Posted by n9mo View Post
one more question:
i filled in the config fields and clicked SAVE.
all good but now with every new start of VPN9C, the password field is empty and the LOAD button gives me
'Importing ... failed: No such file or dir'
Since then, there is no save button anymore... i gotta fill in the password each time

is this a known bug or is it just mine gone waco and there is a way i can reinitialize things again?
There is always tradeoff between security and convenience; to make
things simple to the developer (me, that is) the password is never
read from .pcf file, it is never saved to the configuration file and
the .pcf file is unlinked (*) after the file is read.

So, every time the gui is restarted password field is empty.
If password is written in the configuration field then it is
remembered as long as the gui is running -- popup requesting
the password in case passwd is empty does not make password
remembered.

I think I need to add some more instructions...

(*) the unlinking of the .pcf is not so much about security feature
(as the data is still on flash disk) but about avoiding accident
reading the .pcf again...

Tomi