vpn setup

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 12:12 +0200, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:07 AM, nepal <nepal.roade at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > and am now having problems with it. Most irritating at present is
> > everytime I boot up I have to enter a password in order to bring up my
> > local network even, which I was NOT expecting.:( AFAIU my internal
> > network has nothing to do with vpn.

I'm flying blind here, but just on general principles your internal
network shouldn't have anything to do with the VPN. However, it sounds
as if you have configured the VPN to come up automatically at boot time.
That means that it will be brought up with the rest of the network.

Configure it to require manual establishment, and your system should
boot without the VPN. You could, for example, go looking for a VPN
startup script in /etc/init and add an override file for it if you find
one...

How exactly did you set up the VPN? I.e., using what tools? Andis it
asking for a password after you login, or before X starts?

Regards, K.

PS: The "ring" you saw mentioned is your keyring, a repository of saved
passwords. This is stored in an encrypted file, requiring a password to
decrypt. The password is usually the same as the default user's login
password, but it does not have to be, and lots of people put a stronger
password on the keyring than they use to login, because the keyring
provides access to much more than just the local system. For example, it
might contain ssh keys authorising access to other systems, or PGP keys
allowing decryption of secret files or emails. To change the keyring
password, run the "Passwords and Keys" utility, select "View -> By
keyring", right click on "Password: login" and choose "Properties", then
select "Change password". Much caution advised here - forget your
password and the contents of your keyring are gone forever. You can set
up a new, empty keyring, but you cannot recover the contents of a
keyring you have no password for.

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