On 2020-07-23 09:45, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-07-23 09:20, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> I'm trying to save an OpenVPN password via nmcli, in Fedora 32. I believe I 
>> should be executing:
>>
>> nmcli connection modify CONNECTIONNAME vpn.secrets "password=[PASSWORD]"
>>
>> So I execute this as root, and this initially produces very promising noises 
>> in /var/log/messages:
>>
>> Jul 22 20:41:35 jack NetworkManager[1525]: <info>  [1595464895.3350] audit: 
>> op="connection-update" uuid="UUID" name="CONNECTIONNAME" args="vpn.secrets" 
>> pid=67812 uid=0 result="success"
>>
>> However, the password appears to disappear into a black hole:
>>
>> nmcli --show-secrets connection CONNECTIONNAME | grep secrets
>> vpn.secrets:                            --
>>
>> And nmcli connection up fails because there's no password.
>>
>> The VPN connection's configuration was imported from the VPN provider's 
>> supplied ovpn file, via "nmcli connection import".
>>
>> Some searching around found some hits suggesting that my 
>> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/CONNECTIONNAME should have a 
>> [vpn-secrets] section, but mine does not. If I add it, run "nmcli connection 
>> reload", "nmcli connection modify", that just removes the [vpn-secrets] 
>> section.
>>
>> What would be the right way to do this?
> When you do....
>
> nmcli connection show CONNECTNAME
>
> What is the value of
>
> 802-11-wireless-security.psk-flags?
>

Also, what is the value of...

802-11-wireless-security.key-mgmt



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