@nstommel thanks for this, this was the single thing preventing me from
Ubuntu ... thank you again :)
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Title:
Problem in nm-openvpn-service.c,
Debian package for network-manager-openvpn-gnome built for Ubuntu 17.04
attached.
** Attachment added: "network-manager-openvpn-gnome_1.2.6-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb"
Debian package for network-manager-openvpn built for Ubuntu 17.04
attached.
** Attachment added: "network-manager-openvpn_1.2.6-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb"
The issue was reported upstream and they commented
"the plugin doesn't use --daemon, so it's unclear why the quoted message
would matter.
It looks like the plugin is unable to re-request the password. So,
having openvpn cache the password might workaround the issue in some
cases, but it doesn't
Thanks for the confirmation Will, glad to see that it works. And yeah I
think this bug should be marked urgent because without the patch, my vpn
connection drops in the same manner every ten minutes or so. The
rationale behind not passing auth-nocache seems pretty clear to me based
on the openvpn
Can this be marked as urgent? This is a *huge* problem! I can confirm
the attached patch resolves disconnects every 10 minutes for me
completely (been up 24 hours so far).
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Patch fixes the problem entirely.
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Title:
Problem in nm-openvpn-service.c, openvpn connection fails after key
renegotiation because
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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** Summary changed:
- Problem in network-manager-openvpn, openvpn fails during and after downloads.
+ Problem in nm-openvpn-service.c, openvpn connection fails after key
renegotiation because --auth-user-pass is passed with --auth-nocache.
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