openvpn not working in network-manager
H.S.
hs.samix at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 02:52:48 UTC 2009
H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have started to play around with openvpn recently. I set up an OpenVPN
> server on my router machine and now I am trying to test it with a laptop
> that is running Ubuntu.
>
> So far, if I use sudo to connect to the VPN server, it all works fine.
> However, if use network-manager to connect to the VPN server as a normal
> user, it fails:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Nov 8 21:43:11 red NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): writing resolv.conf
> to /sbin/resolvconf
> Nov 8 21:43:11 red NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto
> PoweredByLinux' (wlan0) as default for routing and DNS.
> Nov 8 21:43:24 red NetworkManager: <debug> [1257734604.002134]
> ensure_killed(): waiting for vpn service pid 6996 to exit
> Nov 8 21:43:24 red NetworkManager: <debug> [1257734604.002388]
> ensure_killed(): vpn service pid 6996 cleaned up
> Nov 8 21:43:51 red wpa_supplicant[1118]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I have not entered my VPN key in nm. It doesn't even ask me for the key!
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Thanks.
>
Sorry I missed some basic info:
Running karmic, fully updated and having
$> dpkg -l *openvp* *network-man* | grep ^i
ii network-manager
0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1 network management
framework daemon
ii network-manager-gnome
0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1 network management
framework (GNOME frontend)
ii network-manager-openvpn
0.8~a~git.20091008t123607.7c184a9-0ubuntu1 network management
framework (OpenVPN plugin)
ii network-manager-pptp
0.8~a~git.20091013t190309.0c39c37-0ubuntu1 network management
framework (PPTP plugin)
ii network-manager-vpnc
0.8~a~git.20091008t124012.f5b95a2-0ubuntu1 network management
framework (VPNC plugin)
ii openvpn 2.1~rc19-1ubuntu2
virtual private network daemon
ii openvpn-blacklist 0.4
list of blacklisted OpenVPN RSA shared keys
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