[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#489802: Bug#489802: cannot start vpn from commandline via network-manager

[Folkert van Heusden]

>> Package: network-manager
>> Version: 0.6.6-2
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> cannot start vpn from commandline via network-manager
>> I've got a vpn configured in network-manager. I can successfully start
>> it from the network-manager gui.
>> Now I would like to have it automatically started as soon as
>> /etc/network/if-up.d/somescript is started.
>> So what I do from that script is:
>> su - folkert -c '/usr/local/sbin/NetworkManager.startvpn keetweej.vanheusden.com'
>> where the /usr/local/sbin/NetworkManager.startvpn is just a python
>> script that does:
>> interface.activateVPNConnection() etc. (if you're interested, the script
>> can be found here: http://blog.mithis.net/archives/ideas/51-nm-autovpn )
>> Now from what the comments tell me it only works with gutsy, not with
>> feisty ubuntu. Now I checked but gutsy has an older network-manager than
>> debian testing. Maybe some patch in ubuntu fixed it? I skimmed through
>> their patch-list but could not find a relevant vpn-related fix.
>
> You can only activate a NM vpn connection, if another NM, non-vpn  
> connection is active, i.e. NM is in the online state.

Ok, that is the case.
So: network-manager connects to the wireless/wired network,
/etc/network/if-up.d/up is executed and starts the vpn.

What I forgot to tell is that when my script runs, a popup-box appears
telling me that a login failure occured: if I then manually click on the
connection and let it start with the parameters it already knows
(including password), it connects fine.


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