Re: How to import .ovpn file

[Greg Oliver <oliver greg gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 1:40 AM Thomas Haller <thaller redhat com> wrote:

On Sun, 2020-02-23 at 18:14 -0600, Greg Oliver via networkmanager-list
wrote:
> While the gui has the import option, I find it has always told me
> "unknown option" on every profile I have ever tried to import.  That
> said, nmcli always imports them just fine.
>
> nmcli connection import type openvpn file openvpnProfile.ovpn

hi,

which GUI? nm-connection-editor and gnome-control-center use the same
import code as nmcli (by loading the library specified in
"/usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openvpn-service.name").

Both - this is nm-connection-editor's output (nothing into the journal though).

"""

Could Not Create New Connection

The VPN plugin failed to import the VPN connection correctly. Key file contains line "client" which is not a key-value pair, group or comment.

"""

If I hand edit the ovpn file, and remove the line, it just starts complaining about more lines :)

[greg@dellxps ~]$ sudo rpm -qa |grep NetworkManager|sort

NetworkManager-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-adsl-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-bluetooth-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora-1.20.10-1.fc31.noarch
NetworkManager-libnm-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-openconnect-1.2.6-2.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-openconnect-gnome-1.2.6-2.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-1.8.10-1.fc31.1.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome-1.8.10-1.fc31.1.x86_64
NetworkManager-ppp-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-1.2.8-1.fc31.2.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-gnome-1.2.8-1.fc31.2.x86_64
NetworkManager-ssh-1.2.10-2.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-ssh-gnome-1.2.10-2.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-team-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6-3.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-1.2.6-3.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-wifi-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64
NetworkManager-wwan-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64

[greg@dellxps ~]$ ll /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/
total 20,480
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 155 Jan 14 03:08 .
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root  77 Jan 14 03:08 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 313 Sep 25 09:49 nm-openconnect-service.name
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 340 Jul 24  2019 nm-openvpn-service.name
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 302 Jul 24  2019 nm-pptp-service.name
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 265 Jul 24  2019 nm-ssh-service.name
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 322 Jul 24  2019 nm-vpnc-service.name

Like I said - nmcli pulls it in straight away though.  I'm not trying to hijack this thread, just trying to help the OP.  I could care less if the GUI works for this really.  Thanks though.

 

But yes, nmcli's import should do pretty much the same as nm-c-e/g-c-c.

plasma-nm implements the import differently. So, maybe that's the
difference.


best,
Thomas