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Description of problem: NetworkManager-openvpn cannot be configured to connect when advanced options are used in the config. many of the options are not available for configuration when defining a OpenVPN connection. in addition, importing a properly configured connection does not succeed, and many directives are not imported during the procoess. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.9.0 How reproducible: extremely reproducable Steps to Reproduce: 1. create OpenVPN config: dev tap proto udp remote host.domain.tld resolv-retry infinite keepalive 10 120 ping-timer-rem persist-tun persist-key ca ca.crt cert laptop.crt key laptop.key tls-auth tls-auth.key 1 ns-cert-type server cipher AES-256-CBC auth sha256 route-delay 10 script-security 2 up "up.sh" down "down.sh" pull comp-lzo verb 4 mute 20 explicit-exit-notify 2 2. attempt to import config created above 3. attempt to connect to OpenVPN 4. vi /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/<name_given> 5. notice that many directives are not present Actual results: OpenVPN connectivity does not work. several directives that are required for the connection are not present in the NetworkManager connnection configuration. Expected results: NetworkManager would import all the settings, record all directives, and be able to establish a connection Additional info:
step 1 should have the line "client" above "dev tap". copy/paste error missed that line.
Fedora (20) uses a NM-openvpn release that is close to upstream. Any change should be implemented upstream first. Also, your request is quite generic. NM VPN plugins do not support arbitrary options, instead they must be thought every single one of them. Requests to blindly accept (openvpn) arguments were rejected in the past (e.g. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625247). This is a known problem, especially for OpenVPN which has countless configuration options. Upstream will try to address this as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704866 . So, there are two possibilities: - somebody adds exactly the options you request to NM-openvpn. This is tedious, and I wouldn't hold my breath for that. (Patches welcome). - upstream makes this simpler by solving bgo#704866. We hope to do that for NM v1.0, but probably it won't be backported to Fedora 20 -- only future Fedora releases.
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