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Re: openvpn with networkmanager
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: openvpn with networkmanager |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Sep 2018 12:25:02 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Benjamin,
Benjamin Slade <address@hidden> skribis:
> I have the following definition in my config.scm, which I call in
> defining the operating system:
>
> ````
> (define %slade-desktop-services
> (modify-services %desktop-services
> (network-manager-service-type config =>
> (network-manager-configuration
> (inherit config)
> (vpn-plugins (list
> network-manager-openvpn))))))
> ````
>
> This does indeed enable the OpenVPN module of NetworkManager, but
> NetworkManager doesn't automatically read in the *.opvn files in
> /etc/openvpn (which is probably expected), but moreover as an ordinary
> user I'm not allowed to create them. Is the best thing to login as root
> and add these to NetworkManager?
IIRC, NM has a tool to import OpenVPN config files, though it only
understands a subset of the syntax; you have to run it as root:
sudo nmcli connection import type openvpn file /path/to/whatever.ovpn
Then I think something was broken with VPN support in NM, though I
forgot the details…
HTH,
Ludo’.
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