Comment 4 for bug 908824

Brandon, you could probably workaround that limitation in 2 different ways. First would be to install the "network-manager-openvpn" package if not already done and use it to import and connect to your VPN. Second would be to make sure the VPN is marked for autostart in /etc/default/openvpn.

Marking as Invalid as OpenVPN requires privileges when it starts (to create a network device, assign an IP to it and add routes). The network-manager-openvpn package is a good way to connect to your VPN with a regular user.