I'd concur and suggest that as so many people use openvpn for 'Private Internet Access' that would be a far more appropriate out-of-the-box VPN add-on to ship.
That obviously has implications because it would require adding openvpn to the seed. PPTP is, I think, a hold over from the dial-up ISP days. I think it is also used by some cellular modem type connections but have not seen such in a long time. Mine are all CDC-Ethernet devices. ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752417 Title: Out of the box, Ubuntu Bionic offers only insecure VPN option Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: network-manager lists only PPTP as an available VPN client connection type (and also offers to import a file). I'd expect L2TP-over-IPSec and IKEv1/IKEv2 options as well. In fact, most major desktop OSes have removed PPTP altogether because it's insecure, and Ubuntu should probably do so in 18.04 as well, at least from the GUI! $ apt list network-manager Llistant… Fet network-manager/bionic,now 1.10.4-1ubuntu2 amd64 [instal·lat] $ uname -a Linux machinename 4.15.0-10-generic #11-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 13 18:23:35 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch) Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1752417/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp