Public bug reported:
Up to and including 13.10 and 14.04 there is a bug in the parsing of
multiple remote gateway specifications.
The tooltip says:
po/id.po:402:msgid "Remote host name or IP address. You can specify
multiple items for redundancy (use commas to separate the
entries). config: remote"
But the code separate on spaces as well as commas (src/nm-openvpn-
service.c::nm_openvpn_start_openvpn_binary()):
tmp = nm_setting_vpn_get_data_item (s_vpn, NM_OPENVPN_KEY_REMOTE);
if (tmp && strlen (tmp)) {
char *tok;
while ((tok = strsep((char**)&tmp, " ,")) != NULL) {
if (strlen(tok)) {
add_openvpn_arg (args, "--remote");
add_openvpn_arg (args, tok);
}
}
}
So the following entry in the Gateway text-box "a.bc.d 1194 udp, e.f.g.h
443 tcp"
which is stored in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/server as:
remote=a.b.c.d 1194 udp, e.f.g.h 443 tcp
results in trying to start the process using this:
/usr/sbin/openvpn --remote a.b.c.d --remote 1194 --remote udp --remote
e.f.g.h --remote 443 --remote tcp --comp-lzo --nobind --dev tun --proto
udp --port 1194 ...
which fails miserably.
the fix is to remove the space from the strsep() match string.
** Affects: network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Multiple remote gateways fail due to incorrect parsing
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