On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 11:46 -0400, George Karabotsos wrote:
Hi Thomas, Thank you for all the details you have provided, I am sure they will help. My suspicion was (and is now re-inforced after reading your response) that I have mis-installed the plugin. NetworkManager is installed under /usr while NetworkManager-openconnect is under /usr/local. I did ensure the /usr/local/lib is set in the ld.so.conf and refreshed with ldconfig. Nonetheless I still do not get to see any option(s) from the nm-connection-editor to add an openconnect connection type. I only see the Hardware and Virtual lists. I will try to re-install and push the NetworkManager-openconnect to /usr.
Hi, Where the plugin is installed doesn't matter that much. Most important here is the file nm-openconnect-service.name I suspect this name-file *must* be in /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/ (which depends on nm-applet's and NetworkManager's configuration). (on nm-1-2, preferred location of the name-file is /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/, but /etc is still supported) Thomas
To answer your last question--I am under Slackware-current and there is no appropriate package for openconnect plugin for the version I am on for NetworkManager. Hence, why I build from source. I 'll let you know how it goes--in the meantime my GF will have to use the terminal lol. She is very happy with NetworkManager and nm- applet though :) Cheers, George On Sat, Apr 2, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Thomas Haller wrote:On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 08:27 -0400, George Karabotsos wrote:Hello all, I have NetworkManager with nm-applet working on my linux-box. I have openconnect installed and working. I downloaded the source version of NetworkManager-openconnect compiled it and installed it succesfully. Unfortunately, I can't find any documentation or howto on how to configure it. Would anyone have such documentation or even a working configuration file should be able to get going. My other question is how will I then setup VPN from nm-applet--I did see the dialogs for VPN but I cannot identify what I need to configure. Here's some background: for the longest time I have been using wpa_supplicant, dhcpcd, and openconnect to hook up to the net and my work's vpn. I would like to make it a little more "user friendly" so that my GF can hook up my desktop to the net and her employer's VPN.Hi George, I never used openconnect or nm-openconnect, but to answer in principle: with the NetworkManager VPN plugins, they provide a plugin that can be loaded via nm-connection-editor and gnome-control-center. So, that is a convenient way to configure them. For KDE/plasma-nm, I think they implement UI support also in form of separate plugins, so maybe you will find a different plugin there (those plugins live in a separate package and source repository -- if it exists for openconnect). (of course, you could also configure a connection manually via nmcli or by editing the file in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections). That doesn't need UI support. There is no documentation about that beside the source code https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-openconnect/tree/src/n m-op enconnect-service.c?h=nm-1-0#n358 Also, the import-code makes it pretty clear which properties are supported: https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-openconnect /tre e/properties/nm-openconnect.c?h=nm-1-0#n119 But probably you don't want to do that. As you say, you tried to use nm-applet (and it's sibling nm- connection- editor). So, just start nm-connection-editor and click "Add" and select openconnect VPN. Alternatively, if you have a openconnect configuration, you might choose "Import a saved VPN connection". Doesn't that work? Then maybe you did something wrong and nm- connection-editor cannot find the plugin. When you start the editor in the terminal, do you see a helpful message there? If you use 1.0.10 NetworkManager, you must also use nm-openconnect <= 1.0, but I guess you did that -- as master branch wouldn't compile. On Fedora, there is also a package NetworkManager-openconnect which provides the UI plugin for nm-connection-editor. Why do you build from source? ThomasCheers, George PS: my system specifics bash-4.3# uname -a Linux montreal 4.4.6 #2 SMP Wed Mar 16 14:17:03 CDT 2016 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux bash-4.3# NetworkManager --version 1.0.10 bash-4.3# openconnect --version OpenConnect version v7.06 Using GnuTLS. Features present: PKCS#11, HOTP software token, TOTP software token, System keys, DTLSEmail had 1 attachment: + signature.asc 1k (application/pgp-signature)
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