VPN password and Keychain

Depends on who you ask!

I vote for Bug!

If I've entered the password in the network pane, it should NOT ask me for it again.

Seems to be a bug related to upgrading from older OS X versions ... I was having the same problem, but I just tried deleting my settings and starting them again from scratch (which took all of twelve seconds), and that worked!

Hope it works for you too 🙂

No it's not a bug. In fact it is a feature.

Before Leopard, Internet Connect was used to establish a VPN connection. In your keychain your VPN password is by default protected so only Internet Connect can use it.

In Leopard your VPN connection is made by another system application (pppd / racoon) and that application has no right to use that password.

The most easy and safe way to correct this is to make a new connection and delete the old one.

You can also give all applications access to your old password in the keychain (see Access Control for your password in the Keychain) but that is not safe.

Best regards,
Patrick

Didn't work for me. I removed the VPN entry in the Network system pref panel, then removed the keychain entry associated with it. Then added a new PPTP VPN configuration, and entered the password by clicking the 'authentication settings' button. This caused a new 'PPP Password' entry in the keychain.

However, after doing all this, I still get an 'Internet Connect' titled window prompting me for the username and password - along with an icon for the Internet Connect.app which no longer appears to exist under Leopard. If I enter the same password that is already stored in the keychain, I get a connection. If I don't, then it fails with ;

pppd 9233: MS-CHAP authentication failed: E=691 Authentication failure

..in the syslog.

Me thinks a bug affecting those who did an upgrade from Tiger.

worked for me. many thanks Patrick. ... I was really scratching my head on this one, now you've made it seem obvious and simple (ain't that always the way?).