Binary package hint: plasma-widget-network-manager
I tried to configure an openvpn connection in kunbuntu jaunty beta release (clean install +openvpn + latest updates).
I've not been able to get this working. Don't know if it is supposed to work?
When opening the OpenVPN configuration dialog Connection Type is set to "X.509 Certificates" but the fields under are "CA file", "Username" and "Password". By selecting another Connection Type (e.g. password) and then going back to "X.509 Certificates" I get the opetions that one should get, i.e.
* CA file
* Certificate
* Key
If I open the "Optional Information" tab there is one check box for overriding default port and one check box for overriding VPN addresses for set specified address masks. Changing these checkboxes do not enable the input fields so it's not possible to enter any information.
If i try so save the connection and open it up later I have to switch between connection types again to see the saved paths, but it looks like the key path is not saved at all.
Trying to connect to the configured connection fails, all I can see in syslog is:
"<WARN> wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) /org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/3 failed to activate (timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service"
Where is this configuration stored, is it possible to edit the config manually as a workaround?
Installed plasma-widget-network-manager version: 0.0+svn930811-0ubuntu2
/Mikael
I can confirm this (running 9.04 beta in virtualbox)
In fact it is a bit worse than mentioned. Before I installed openvpn and the plugin networkmanager showed up the vpn tab and let me fill in the details (albeit with the issues already mentioned) The connection I entered did not appear on the list of available vpn connections and I was given no hint that I did not have openvpn installed. I only discovered this when I tried connecting from the command line!
Once I installed openvpn and the plugin I saw the same odd behaviour as regards entering the key and certificates. I could also not enter a cipher type or enter anything in the tls auth section (not that it gives any clue at all what I should enter here)
The saved connection does not appear anywhere on the networkmanager so I can't try connecting with it.
the configuration page won't use the .ovpn file I can use with openvpn command line and there is no hint on the page of how to extract the settings from it. How would any normal person know how to get keys and certificates from the .p12 file? I did not! If openvpn can use this file, why not NM?
for a GUI 'it just works' set up this is rather off putting especially as it does not work at all.