On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 11:46 -0400, George Karabotsos wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Thank you for all the details you have provided, I am sure they will
> help.
> 
> My suspicion was (and is now re-inforced after reading your response)
> that I have mis-installed the plugin.   NetworkManager is installed
> under /usr while NetworkManager-openconnect is under /usr/local.  I
> did
> ensure the /usr/local/lib is set in the ld.so.conf and refreshed with
> ldconfig.  Nonetheless I still do not get to see any option(s) from
> the
> nm-connection-editor to add an openconnect connection type.  I only
> see
> the Hardware and Virtual lists.  I will try to re-install and push
> the
> NetworkManager-openconnect to /usr.

Hi,

Where the plugin is installed doesn't matter that much. Most important
here is the file nm-openconnect-service.name

I suspect this name-file *must* be in /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/ (which
depends on nm-applet's and NetworkManager's configuration).

(on nm-1-2, preferred location of the name-file is
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/, but /etc is still supported)


Thomas 



> 
> To answer your last question--I am under Slackware-current and there
> is
> no appropriate package for openconnect plugin for the version I am on
> for NetworkManager.  Hence, why I build from source.
> 
> I 'll let you know how it goes--in the meantime my GF will have to
> use
> the terminal lol.  She is very happy with NetworkManager and nm-
> applet
> though :)
> 
> Cheers,
> George
> 
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Thomas Haller wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 08:27 -0400, George Karabotsos wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > I have NetworkManager with nm-applet working on my linux-box.  I
> > > have
> > > openconnect installed and working. 
> > > 
> > > I downloaded the source version of NetworkManager-openconnect
> > > compiled
> > > it and installed it succesfully.  Unfortunately, I can't find any
> > > documentation or howto on how to configure it.  Would anyone have
> > > such
> > > documentation or even a working configuration file should be able
> > > to
> > > get
> > > going.
> > > 
> > > My other question is how will I then setup VPN from nm-applet--I
> > > did
> > > see
> > > the dialogs for VPN but I cannot identify what I need to
> > > configure.
> > > 
> > > Here's some background: for the longest time I have been using
> > > wpa_supplicant, dhcpcd, and openconnect to hook up to the net and
> > > my
> > > work's vpn. I would like to make it a little more "user friendly"
> > > so
> > > that my GF can hook up my desktop to the net and her employer's
> > > VPN.
> > Hi George,
> > 
> > 
> > I never used openconnect or nm-openconnect, but to answer in
> > principle:
> > 
> > 
> > with the NetworkManager VPN plugins, they provide a plugin that can
> > be
> > loaded via nm-connection-editor and gnome-control-center. So, that
> > is a
> > convenient way to configure them.
> > 
> > For KDE/plasma-nm, I think they implement UI support also in form
> > of
> > separate plugins, so maybe you will find a different plugin there
> > (those plugins live in a separate package and source repository --
> > if
> > it exists for openconnect).
> > 
> > 
> > (of course, you could also configure a connection manually via
> > nmcli or
> > by editing the file in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections).
> > That
> > doesn't need UI support. There is no documentation about that
> > beside
> > the source code 
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-openconnect/tree/src/n
> > m-op
> > enconnect-service.c?h=nm-1-0#n358
> > Also, the import-code makes it pretty clear which properties are
> > supported: https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-openconnect
> > /tre
> > e/properties/nm-openconnect.c?h=nm-1-0#n119
> > But probably you don't want to do that.
> > 
> > 
> > As you say, you tried to use nm-applet (and it's sibling nm-
> > connection-
> > editor). So, just start nm-connection-editor and click "Add" and
> > select
> > openconnect VPN. Alternatively, if you have a openconnect
> > configuration, you might choose "Import a saved VPN connection".
> > Doesn't that work? Then maybe you did something wrong and nm-
> > connection-editor cannot find the plugin. When you start the editor
> > in
> > the terminal, do you see a helpful message there?
> > If you use 1.0.10 NetworkManager, you must also use nm-openconnect
> > <=
> > 1.0, but I guess you did that -- as master branch wouldn't compile.
> > 
> > 
> > On Fedora, there is also a package NetworkManager-openconnect which
> > provides the UI plugin for nm-connection-editor. Why do you build
> > from
> > source?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > George
> > > 
> > > PS: my system specifics
> > > bash-4.3# uname -a
> > > Linux montreal 4.4.6 #2 SMP Wed Mar 16 14:17:03 CDT 2016 x86_64
> > > Intel(R)
> > > Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> > > 
> > > bash-4.3# NetworkManager --version
> > > 1.0.10
> > > 
> > > bash-4.3# openconnect --version
> > > OpenConnect version v7.06
> > > Using GnuTLS. Features present: PKCS#11, HOTP software token,
> > > TOTP
> > > software token, System keys, DTLS
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