On 12/10/18 2:10 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 12/10/18 1:01 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> On 7/12/18 9:10 am, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 12/7/18 4:33 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>>>> Thanks Ed, I'll try that again.
>>>>
>>>> I am using a vpn called Slickvpn. I did download *.ovpn files for
>>>> each location but I
>>>> didn't issue the command you mentioned. I manually created the vpn
>>>> definitions in
>>>> network manager and manually populated the information in those
>>>> definitions by manually
>>>> reading the .ovpn files and transferring the information contained in
>>>> them into the
>>>> definitions, plus the "vendor" supplied a windows client that enabled
>>>> selection of the
>>>> site to connect to and supplied all the necessary configuration, that
>>>> I also used to get
>>>> the configuration for the networkmanager definitions. As it has been
>>>> over 12 months
>>>> since I last used them, which would have been in F27, what I don't
>>>> know at this stage is
>>>> whether things have changed with all their servers or whether F28
>>>> changes are
>>>> causing issues with this particular vpn.
>>> There is no need to "manually" add the connection in Network Manager.
>>> Network Manager has
>>> an "import" function which will do things for you. One thing it does
>>> is put the certs in
>>> the proper location. This ensures that the selinux context is correct
>>> for them.
>>>
>> I've renamed my existing definitions to import the configuration, and in
>> doing the rename I noticed that the UDP port specified is now different
>> to the ports their windows client provides as selections. Their windows
>> client provides an auto setting for the port which keeps connecting and
>> disconnecting without ever providing a static connection. The port that
>> did work for one of the two sites I tried, being 8888, was not the same
>> port in the linux definition that worked 12 months ago, being 443.
>>
>> I tried creating a vpn definition from Networkmanager in KDE by creating
>> the definition via the import function, but that doesn't work for my
>> situation at the moment. My OVPN files are on my windows partition, and
>> when I navigate to /mnt where the mount points are, the import dialog
>> shows me all the directories in /mnt except the three windows
>> directories even though those mount points are currently mounted. All
>> the directories in /mnt are owned by root and world readable. How do I
>> find out why the Networkmanager dialog won't show them?
>
> In order to walk down a directory tree, the directories have to have
> execute privileges, not merely read privileges (e.g. "chmod -R w+x /mnt"
> should do it).
Or more selectively:
find /mnt -type d -exec chmod w+x '{}' \;
to give execute permission to JUST the directories under /mnt.
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