Re: NetworkManager and OpenVPN

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 12/15/2008 07:44:08 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 10:05 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > Could someone outline (or provide a pointer to) the role played by 
> > NetworkManager-openvpn (in v 0.7)? I notice that the openvpm 
> service
> 
> > dies on startup, although there appear to be no ill effects from
> that.
> 
> You my be running an older version of openvpn (2.1 rc8 or lower?) 
> that
> doesn't accept the --script-security argument.  Is that the case?
> 
> Basically, NetworkManager-openvpn is the openvpn plugin to allow NM 
> to
> connect to OpenVPN VPN servers.  When you ask NM to activate an
> OpenVPN
> connection, NM launches nm-openvpn-service which handles the actual
> connection task.
> 
> If --script-security isn't the problem, then we can try to debug this
> further by just running '/usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service' as root,
> then
> connecting from the NM applet menu.  That will spit out more debug
> info,
> which we can look at to find out what the problem is.

I'm running openvpn-2.1-0.28.rc9.fc10.i386

I'm happy to assist with any debugging.  FWIW, wpa_supplicant.log gets 
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS on executing /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service as 
root.  In that log, I see 
Trying to associate with 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 (SSID='Netgear' freq=2462 
MHz)
Associated with 00:18:4d:88:55:c2
CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 completed (auth) 
[id=0 id_str=]
CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
....