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-thc

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[SOLVED] nm-connection-editor >1.8.14: OpenVPN conn. require CA key

All OpenVPN-based connections can be edited, but the "Save" button stays greyed out. Same for new OpenVPN connections.

A single "Cisco AnyConnect"-based connection can be edited with an active "Save" button.

Workaround: Downgrade to 1.8.14.

Last edited by -thc (2018-10-27 21:59:24)

karamaz0v

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Re: [SOLVED] nm-connection-editor >1.8.14: OpenVPN conn. require CA key

i'm hitting the same issue and downgrade works.

For the ones who want to apply the workaround, if you still have the previous packages in the cache:

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/network-manager-applet-1.8.14-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/nm-connection-editor-1.8.14-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

and add them to IgnorePkg in pacman.conf to avoid them being updated for the moment.

a bug report was filed here
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59677?p … ion-editor

and it seems it was fixed upstream
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network- … /issues/20

So it should be solved when 1.8.18 hit the repos.

Last edited by karamaz0v (2018-09-03 09:23:49)

-thc

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Re: [SOLVED] nm-connection-editor >1.8.14: OpenVPN conn. require CA key

Unfortunately I have to re-open this issue.

Version 1.8.18 did not solve this problem.

It's not possible to modify or create an OpenVPN connection through nm-connection-editor without having access to the CA private key and CA key password.

Is this by design? Why?

Downgrade from 1.8.18-2 requires removal first:

sudo pacman -R -d -d libnma libnm-gtk nm-connection-editor
sudo pacman -U nm-connection-editor-1.8.14-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Last edited by -thc (2018-10-23 06:19:38)

-thc

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Re: [SOLVED] nm-connection-editor >1.8.14: OpenVPN conn. require CA key

I dug a little deeper. The upstream fix (network-manager-applet commit f3b84748) isn't applied to the Arch PKGBUILD sources.

matse

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Re: [SOLVED] nm-connection-editor >1.8.14: OpenVPN conn. require CA key

Why should it be applied, the fix is not yet part of an official stable release?
There is network-manager-applet-indicator in the AUR, which provides dev version of network-manager-applet and which should include the fix you mentioned.

-thc

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Re: [SOLVED] nm-connection-editor >1.8.14: OpenVPN conn. require CA key

Solved in version 1.8.19dev+21+geebf7f95-1.