Re: NetworkManager and OpenVPN

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:25 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> 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
> ....

What's the output from running "/usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service" as
root, and then trying to connect with NM?  That program should print out
some information that we can use to debug further.

Dan