Crispin Flowerday wrote: > Hi, Hi Crispin.
> I have been trying the new openvpn support (0.2.0, ubuntu packages from > http://bootlab.org/~j/NetworkManager-breezy/), and have a few questions: > > - My office VPN uses certificates, and username / pass authentication, > is this supported ? No, not at the moment. But since basically all code is there it is no problem. Will add that over the weekend. > - When openvpn is spawned, does it log what it is doing anywhere? The --syslog flag is added to OpenVPN so all essential logging information should be available in syslog. > Basically I can't get the vpn working, and even starting NM with > --no-daemon doesn't appear to log anything from openvpn, so I'm not > exactly sure why it isn't connecting. Please check the syslog if there is any information. Please also give "ps ax" a try (you must be quick to see the OpenVPN process after you clicked on the connection in the NM applet). > FWIW, the openvpn config file I got from the sysadmin looks like: > > client > dev tap That is a problem, we are using tun mode. I'm not absolutely sure about the implications of using tap. I will have a look. Maybe all it takes is a boolean flag in the optional information expander. It's getting tight on the screen in this case though. Can someone send me a screenshot (maybe off-list) of the widget running on a 1024x768 screen? > proto udp > remote xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1194 > resolv-retry infinite > nobind > user nobody > group nogroup > persist-key > persist-tun this is the information you give in the X.509 tab > ca ca.crt > cert crispin-00.crt > key crispin-00.key using this at the same time is not supported at the moment. As I said, will have a look over the weekend. > auth-user-pass > ns-cert-type server This must be set in the optional info expander. > comp-lzo > verb 3 Tim -- Tim Niemueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.niemueller.de ================================================================= Imagination is more important than knowledge. (Albert Einstein) _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
