On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 04:37:16PM +0200, Christian Krause wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Looks like there are some people around who need vpnc working...
Yup, at least two bugs have been reported (probably duplicates): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2362815 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2363531 > Ok, I dug up the old Cisco VPN 3000 concentrator for testing. > > I can reproduce the issue of the bug reports, basically in the > current packages the real vpnc binary got overwritten - only > symlinks and helper tools present... > I have a temporary patch which would allow to get the following features > working again: > - manual startup as root > - startup via consoleuser (but the user has to run "vpnc-user" and > "vpnc-disconnect-user" instead of the same names in the /usr/bin/ directory as > before) > - startup as parametrized systemd service > > I will create a PR later in the evening so that you can have a look > at my idea. Thanks. > I didn't manage to get the gnome/NetworkManager integration running > again - when adding the VPN service via gnome-control-center there > is only "Error: unable to load VPN connection editor" displayed > (although libnm-gtk4-vpn-plugin-vpnc-editor.so is > loaded). Unfortunately, there is no actual helpful debug information > provided by gnome-control-center - neither on the command line nor > via journald. > > Any debugging ideas? I don't know - best to ask NM people I think. Rich. > Best regards, > Christian > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbys...@in.waw.pl > > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 01:06:11AM +0200, Christian Krause wrote: > > Hi Richard, Hi Zbigniew, Hi Lubomir, > > > > Thank you very much for taking care of vpnc. > > > > Unfortunately, I can't test vpnc anymore and so maintaining it would > > be hard. I mainly kept it because there was a response that it still > > has some use for some people... > > Been there, done that ;) > > > Are any of you interested in officially maintaining it? I would be > > happy to re-assign vpnc. > > >From my side, I was only doing a drive-by contribution, to help > with the upgrades. I don't want to get involved in maintainance. > > Zbyszek > > -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
