On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 1:40 AM Thomas Haller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-02-23 at 18:14 -0600, Greg Oliver via networkmanager-list > wrote: > > While the gui has the import option, I find it has always told me > > "unknown option" on every profile I have ever tried to import. That > > said, nmcli always imports them just fine. > > > > nmcli connection import type openvpn file openvpnProfile.ovpn > > hi, > > which GUI? nm-connection-editor and gnome-control-center use the same > import code as nmcli (by loading the library specified in > "/usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-openvpn-service.name"). > Both - this is nm-connection-editor's output (nothing into the journal though). """ Could Not Create New Connection The VPN plugin failed to import the VPN connection correctly. Key file contains line "client" which is not a key-value pair, group or comment. """ If I hand edit the ovpn file, and remove the line, it just starts complaining about more lines :) [greg@dellxps ~]$ sudo rpm -qa |grep NetworkManager|sort NetworkManager-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-adsl-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-bluetooth-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-config-connectivity-fedora-1.20.10-1.fc31.noarch NetworkManager-libnm-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-openconnect-1.2.6-2.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-openconnect-gnome-1.2.6-2.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-openvpn-1.8.10-1.fc31.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome-1.8.10-1.fc31.1.x86_64 NetworkManager-ppp-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-pptp-1.2.8-1.fc31.2.x86_64 NetworkManager-pptp-gnome-1.2.8-1.fc31.2.x86_64 NetworkManager-ssh-1.2.10-2.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-ssh-gnome-1.2.10-2.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-team-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-vpnc-1.2.6-3.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-1.2.6-3.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-wifi-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64 NetworkManager-wwan-1.20.10-1.fc31.x86_64 [greg@dellxps ~]$ ll /usr/lib/NetworkManager/VPN/ total 20,480 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 155 Jan 14 03:08 . drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 77 Jan 14 03:08 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 313 Sep 25 09:49 nm-openconnect-service.name -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 340 Jul 24 2019 nm-openvpn-service.name -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 302 Jul 24 2019 nm-pptp-service.name -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 265 Jul 24 2019 nm-ssh-service.name -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 322 Jul 24 2019 nm-vpnc-service.name Like I said - nmcli pulls it in straight away though. I'm not trying to hijack this thread, just trying to help the OP. I could care less if the GUI works for this really. Thanks though. > But yes, nmcli's import should do pretty much the same as nm-c-e/g-c-c. > > plasma-nm implements the import differently. So, maybe that's the > difference. > > > best, > Thomas >
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