Ubuntu
network-manager-vpnc package

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

Bug #481054 reported by Jim Cheetham on 2009-11-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #475694: OpenVPN thru network manager fails for non-password configurations. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	network-manager-vpnc (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

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.

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Jim Cheetham (jim.cheetham) wrote on 2009-11-12:

Screenshot of VPN GUI configuration Edit (50.0 KiB, image/png)

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

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote on 2009-11-12:

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)?

Changed in network-manager-vpnc (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Jim Cheetham (jim.cheetham) wrote on 2009-11-12:

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.