Bug 1122330 - Many openvpn options are not included in the NetworkManager-openvpn config
Summary: Many openvpn options are not included in the NetworkManager-openvpn config
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager-openvpn
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-07-23 01:02 UTC by bpk678
Modified: 2015-06-29 21:42 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 21:42:16 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description bpk678 2014-07-23 01:02:59 UTC
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:

Comment 1 bpk678 2014-07-23 01:04:57 UTC
step 1 should have the line "client" above "dev tap".  copy/paste error missed that line.

Comment 2 Thomas Haller 2014-07-23 14:57:29 UTC
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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