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network-manager-openvpn package

  1. Bug #606365
  2. Comment #111

Comment 111 for bug 606365

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In , Psychonaut (psychonaut) wrote :

(In reply to Dennis Schridde from comment #14)
> Does the import work when using nmcli (`nmcli connection import type openvpn
> file $FILENAME`)?
>
> If nmcli works, I would think this is mostly caused by Plasma NM not using
> the NetworkManager OpenVPN code to import configuration files (bug #396530),
> but implements an own buggy version.

I'm now using plasma-nm 5.12.8. This version has the same behaviour as described for plasma-nm 5.12.6 in Comment 13: attempting to import an .ovpn file with inline certificates and keys results in a spurious error dialog, but the keys and certificates get successfully copied anyway.

I also tried using nmcli. This seems to work without any problems:

$ nmcli connection import type openvpn file ~/vpn/ukp-vpn.ovpn
Connection 'ukp-vpn' (c6cbabfe-f117-4af9-aca5-be9e8c88595c) successfully added.

When I open the NetworkManager plasma applet after doing this, I see the VPN connection listed there, with the keys and certificates copied into separate files under ~/.cert/nm-openvpn.