Ubuntu users who have faced difficulties connecting to new password-protected Wi-Fi networks at the login screen will be relieved to know that a fix is being deployed. This bug affects both Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10. When attempting to connect to a Wi-Fi network that requires a password at the login screen (GDM), users have found that the password input prompt fails to appear, resulting in a failed connection.<\/p>\n
The issue arises because the login screen operates in a "greeter" mode where GNOME Shell is launched. In this mode, when GNOME Shell attempts to establish a new Wi-Fi connection, it checks with the Canonical software engineer Bartosz Woronicz, who reported the original bug, explained that since the login screen doesn’t operate under a logged-in user account, it cannot access stored passwords, making the password check ineffective.<\/p>\n To address this, Canonical’s engineers have proposed a solution that ensures users are always prompted to enter a Wi-Fi password for new connections initiated in "greeter" mode. This solution has been accepted and integrated into the GNOME 48 release.<\/p>\norg.freedesktop.secrets<\/code> service to see if the password is stored. However, this query fails due to restricted access in "greeter" mode, leading to an aborted connection attempt.<\/p>\n