[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#797399: network-manager-openvpn: Can't connect to VPN, user nm-openvpn missing

[Michael Biebl]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:44:54 +0200 Tom Rauchenwald
<tom.rauchenwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a workaround, I created this user (and put it in the group
> nm-openvpn), now everything works fine. I suspect said user should be
> created at package install time.

For anyone reading this bug report: If you want to create that
"nm-openvpn" user yourself as a temporary workaround until this is fixed
in the package, please make sure it is created as a *system* user.

I'm not quite sure yet, if we want to set the home directory to the
chroot directory or to '/', for now I'd run

$ adduser --system --group --gecos "NetworkManager OpenVPN" --home
/var/lib/openvpn/chroot nm-openvpn

If you already created the user, please delete it and recreate with the
command above.

Michael
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