Cannot connect to VPN ("No VPN secrets!") if no private key password is required

[Jim Cheetham]

Binary package hint: network-manager-vpnc

I have an OpenVPN configuration that works from the command-line, without requiring any passwords to be entered (simple possession of the keys & certs is sufficient).

When I import the configuration file into Network Manager, and do not specify a "Private Key Password' value, connections fail, logging into /var/log/syslog :-

Nov 12 12:59:41 roro NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_vpn_connection_connect_cb(): VPN connection 'testvpn' failed to connect: 'No VPN secrets!'.

When I specify a useless value for the Private Key Password field (e.g. a space character), the connection works.

[Jim Cheetham (jim.cheetham)]

Attaching a screenshot of the Network Manager GUI editing the VPN config.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Jim,

Thanks for reporting this bug and helping in making Ubuntu better.

Could you also try to combine both the key and cert into a single .pem file and see if it works if you only set it for the user certificate field (and use your CA certificate as usual)?

[Jim Cheetham (jim.cheetham)]

My apologies; I have just realised that I've filed this bug against network-manager-vpnc; but I'm not using the Cisco client, I'm using the OpenVPN one ... and it's duplicate/extension of #475694.

I'll try to resssign this.