Public bug reported: For an OpenVPN connection, the "VPN" tab of the configuration dialog is buggy when choosing "Password with Certificates (TLS)" authentication. Choosing a certificate file for one of the three User|CA|Private sometimes clears, sometimes sets the entries for the two other certificates that are not affected. Also, a passphrase for the private key is mandatory but shouldn't be.
Another option is to use one single PKCS#12 certificate (--pkcs12 switch for /usr/sbin/openvpn). It took me two hours to figure out that the .p12 file I was given actually can be converted to three .pem files using these commands: openssl pkcs12 -nocerts -in YOUR_CERT.p12 -out userkey.pem openssl pkcs12 -nokeys -clcerts -in YOUR_CERT.p12 -out usercert.pem openssl pkcs12 -nokeys -cacerts -in YOUR_CERT.p12 -out userca.pem (taken from http://blog.stracca.net/?p=73). It would be very, very helpful to have at least a note with a helpful link in the dialog concerning PKCS#12 certificates, or, at best, if the GUI supported this type of certificate right away (perhaps through yet another authentication type "Password with Certificates (TLS) with PKCS#12 key"). ** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1179062 Title: OpenVPN: Buggy config dialog for "Password with Certificates (TLS)" authentication To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1179062/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
