On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 16:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
You've said you have things set to activate a VPN connection for the ethernet interface, yes?
What type of VPN are you using? I don't have my VPN activated automatically. But when it comes to OpenVPN there are 2 choices for saving the password. Either for one user and encrypted or for all users and un-encrypted. I would think that for the VPN to be activated without your having logged-in it would have to have been saved un-encrypted for all users.
I just tested it on a VPN and unless I have the PW saved for all the interface will not come up on boot.
I think you're on to something. When I inspected the log files I found the following that's logged during startup.
vpn-connection[]: Failed to request VPN secrets #3: No agents were available for this request.
But I do have the 'Make available to other users' enabled in the settings for this VPN profile. The certificate for the VPN provider is in a folder under /home/mainuser. If that location would make any difference?
This is a OpenVPN service by Mullvad that I'm using.