Friday, August 7, 2020

[fedora-arm] Re: Error: failed to find VPN plugin for ovpn.

Peter Robinson writes:

> > > After successfully testing an OpenVPN link on a x86_64, I get the
> following
> > > error on aarch64, as root:
> > >
> > > # nmcli connection import type ovpn file <file>.ovpn
> > > Error: failed to find VPN plugin for ovpn.
> >
> > So having tried that same command with a openvpn profile I use daily I
> > had a look at the manual [1] to check to see if I could list plugins.
> > It mentioned "type values are the same as for vpn-type option in nmcli
> > connection add" so checking that out I got a lst of the following
> > types "vpn-type
> > vpnc|openvpn|pptp|openconnect|openswan|libreswan|ssh|l2tp|iodine|..."
> >
> > That gave me a slightly different error related to my actual config,
> > but to start it seems you need to substitute ovpn for openvpn in you
> > command line.
>
> Once I exported it from the other machine properly a "nmcli connection
> import type openvpn file test.ovpn" worked as expected on an aarch64
> machine.

Yup. Rookie error. I got mixed up between the .ovpn extension, and the
"openvpn" plugin name.

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