Bugzilla – Bug 638371
KNetworkManager OpenVPN cannot connect when private key password is set
Last modified: 2012-05-17 14:42:47 UTC
User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; de) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.61 I'm trying to connect to a VPN using KNetworkManager of 11.3. My private key is protected by a password. KNetworkManager never asks for the password and the connection is thus never established. The important messages of the log seem to be: Sep 6 22:29:01 karl nm-openvpn[17858]: OpenVPN 2.1.1 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] built on Jul 5 2010 Sep 6 22:29:01 karl nm-openvpn[17858]: WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info. Sep 6 22:29:01 karl nm-openvpn[17858]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts Sep 6 22:29:42 karl NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'XXX' (IP Config Get) timeout exceeded. Sep 6 22:29:42 karl nm-openvpn[17858]: ERROR: could not read Private Key username/password/ok/string from management interface Sep 6 22:29:42 karl nm-openvpn[17858]: Exiting The GNOME interface seems to have a configuration setting for the password http://www.ossramblings.com/files/vpnclient.jpg but I did not find anything similar in KNetworkManager. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Still valid for the networkmanagement-plasmoid in openSUSE 11.4.
When are you going to look into this? Can you confirm that the fix found in KDE bug 262555 (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262555) has been incorporated into the openSUSE version? When will we see a fix that (re)enables the NetworkManager to setup OpenVPN connections? I am using openSUSE 11.4 with Tumbleweed having NetworkManager-0.8.2-15.24.1 with NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.2-6.1 NetworkManager-openvpn-kde4-0.9.1git20110503-5.1 NetworkManager-openvpn-lang-0.8.2-6.1 or more specific: $ rpm -qa '*etwork*' | sort NetworkManager-0.8.2-15.24.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-glib-0.8.2-15.24.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-kde4-0.9.svn1192577-7.2.x86_64 NetworkManager-kde4-libs-0.9.1git20110503-5.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-kde4-libs-lang-0.9.1git20110503-5.1.noarch NetworkManager-novellvpn-0.7.2.r1138-12.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-novellvpn-kde4-0.9.1git20110503-5.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.2-6.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-openvpn-kde4-0.9.1git20110503-5.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-openvpn-lang-0.8.2-6.1.noarch NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.2-4.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-pptp-kde4-0.9.1git20110503-5.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-pptp-lang-0.8.2-4.1.noarch NetworkManager-strongswan-kde4-0.9.1git20110503-5.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-vpnc-0.8.2-4.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-vpnc-kde4-0.9.1git20110503-5.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-vpnc-lang-0.8.2-4.1.noarch glib-networking-2.27.90-5.1.x86_64 kdenetwork4-filesharing-4.6.5-7.1.x86_64 libproxy1-networkmanager-0.4.6-3.9.1.x86_64 yast2-network-2.20.12-0.3.1.x86_64
Works for me now using openSUSE 12.1.