On Thu, 2017-12-28 at 10:35 +0000, Guillaume Betous wrote:
Hi, I have an openvpn setup which works fine on command-line. I have a single file which contains inline keys. When I try to import it on network-manager (not sure of the version, but I run Ubuntu 17.10), I have an error with message like "cannot read or does not contain known VPN data / ERROR : plugin does not handle import" (French message is : Le fichier xxx.ovpn est illisible ou ne contient pas d'information de connexion VPN reconnues. ERREUR : le greffon ne prend pas en charge la fonction d'importation). I could not find anywhere a clear documentation about the needed file format. Thank you for your help, Regards, gUI
Hi, The "import" functionality takes a (native) OpenVPN configuration (ovpn file), and creates a corresponding connection profile in NetworkManager. The file format is of exactly as documented in `man openvpn`. If a certain valid ovpn file cannot be imported, it's either a bug or a missing feature. Since you don't provide the file that causes the failure to import, it's hard to say why it fails. The reason why you are getting such a generic error message is probably because import via nm-connection-editor asks all VPN plugins to import the file. Since they all fail, nm-connection-editor shows the failure message of an arbitrary plugin, not necessarily the openvpn plugin. Hence, the error message is not very helpful. That should be improved, but it's unclear how to find the ~best~ failure message. You would probably get a better message with nmcli connection import type openvpn file "$OVPN_FILENAME" best, Thomas
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