On 2020-07-23 09:20, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I'm trying to save an OpenVPN password via nmcli, in Fedora 32. I believe I should be executing: > > nmcli connection modify CONNECTIONNAME vpn.secrets "password=[PASSWORD]" > > So I execute this as root, and this initially produces very promising noises in /var/log/messages: > > Jul 22 20:41:35 jack NetworkManager[1525]: <info> [1595464895.3350] audit: op="connection-update" uuid="UUID" name="CONNECTIONNAME" args="vpn.secrets" pid=67812 uid=0 result="success" > > However, the password appears to disappear into a black hole: > > nmcli --show-secrets connection CONNECTIONNAME | grep secrets > vpn.secrets: -- > > And nmcli connection up fails because there's no password. > > The VPN connection's configuration was imported from the VPN provider's supplied ovpn file, via "nmcli connection import". > > Some searching around found some hits suggesting that my /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/CONNECTIONNAME should have a [vpn-secrets] section, but mine does not. If I add it, run "nmcli connection reload", "nmcli connection modify", that just removes the [vpn-secrets] section. > > What would be the right way to do this? When you do.... nmcli connection show CONNECTNAME What is the value of 802-11-wireless-security.psk-flags? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
