OpenVPN disapeared

[Ed Greshko]

On 07/24/13 07:07, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Bill Oliver wrote:
>
>>> As a matter of interest, what is the point of NetworkManager-openvpn?
>>> I'm running NetworkManager under Fedora-19/KDE on my laptop,
>>> and I'm also running OpenVPN.
>>> Both seem to be working fine,
>>> so what is the point of installing NetworkManager-openvpn?
>  
>> It lets me control VPN using the "Manage Connections" button on the KDE
>> NetworkManager widget -- whatever that's called.  Otherwise I have to
>> configure and run it by hand, and I'm too lazy to do that.  This way, I
>> just choose "Manage Connections" -> VPN -> Import and choose my config
>> file.
> What does "control VPN" mean?
> I only use openvpn to login to remote computers.
> What do you use it for?
> If I want to login to xyz-vpn I just say "ssh -Y xyz-vpn".
> Actually I've set it up so I just click on buttons
> to access the remote machines I'm interested in.
>  
>> My VPN provider actually gives me three or four location options, and some
>> are faster than others on any given day.  Using NetworkManager allows me
>> to switch between them with a mouse click.
> Do you really need a NetworkManager plugin to do that?
>

If one wants to control their VPN connections, for their entire desktop session, in KDE via the systray plasmoid (GUI), then YES.  If they want to do things the way you do it, then NO.   It is as simple as that.... 

FWIW, in order to use the GUI of KDE to manage various network functions you need a pair of things....

kde-plasma-networkmanagement-vpnc
NetworkManager-vpnc

kde-plasma-networkmanagement-openconnect
NetworkManager-openconnect

kde-plasma-networkmanagement-openvpn
NetworkManager-openvpn




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