Re: NM-vpn no vpn secrets

[Ferry Toth <ftoth telfort nl>]

Yes, the X.509 Certificates method is used. The Certificate requires a key, the Key file has no password. The results is that about once in 5  tries the connection gets established, possibly depending on the time between retries.

The workaround just switches to X.509 with password, changes no other settings, and I fill in a bogus username and password as Anton suggests. Now the connection always is established in one try.

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Ferry Toth
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On wo, 2010-01-20 at 15:05 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 23:36 +0100, Ferry Toth wrote:
> > Dan,
> > 
> > Yes I deleted that. What was before were the messages that you get
> > when successfully establishing a VPN connection. SIGTERM[hard,]
> > happens because I manually close the vpn at that point. I assumed
> > those log before were not that interesting.
> > 
> > BTW Anton Lindström found a work around the problem
> > Anton Lindström wrote on 2009-12-04: #97
> > (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-openvpn/+bug/453807), transcription follows:
> > 
> > Just want to comment that I have found a workaround for
> > network-manager-openvpn: Instead of selecting authentication type
> > "Certificate (TLS)" (I'm translating this to English so it might not
> > be exactly the same) I select "Password with certificate (TLS)". Then
> > I fill in a bogus username and password.
>
> Ok, I assume that you are using a TLS connection and the private key is
> *not* protected iwth a password?
>
> Dan