Hey there,
When I log in to my computer, I would like to automatically connect to my university’s VPN. This almost works, only thing missing is that Network Manager doesn’t seem to remember my username.
Software in use: openSUSE Tumbleweed, Gnome, Network Manager and the openconnect-vpn plugin for Network Manager
Network connections set up in Network Manager: A Wired Connection and a VPN Connection, I told the Wired Connection to connect automatically and to automatically pull in the VPN Connection as well.
When I try to connect to the VPN the first time, I enter a username and password for the VPN connection in a dialog of the openconnect plugin (nm-openconnect-auth-dialog). Then when I reboot the system, the connection is not re-established and when I hit connect, the dialog comes back up and I see it remembered my password but not my username.
Now here’s what I found out so far:
- Network Manager created configuration files for the two connections, I posted them below.
- The VPN password got stored in my GNOME keyring, I can see it there, but it is only the password
- I found an old VPN connection configuration file on a different account on my computer in which the username was stored. I tried to alter my current VPN connection configuration file so as to remember the username like I saw in that file but that didn’t work: Network Manager removed all lines I manually added. (See below for information on what contents were different)
- I looked into my GNOME keyring if I could add username information to the VPN password similar as described in https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=121409but Seahorse only let me alter the password, nothing else.
Here are the two connection configuration files that Network Manager created (I x’d out my username and the VPN hostname):
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Wired.nmconnection:
[connection]
id=Wired
uuid=fd0449ea-7d62-441c-a2d7-d176ec772617
type=ethernet
permissions=xxxxxxxxx:;
secondaries=29ed565d-bf5b-45f8-b64d-e832ca4825d7;
timestamp=1556814674
[ethernet]
mac-address=2C:41:38:9B:F4:10
mac-address-blacklist=
[ipv4]
dns-search=
method=auto
[ipv6]
addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy
dns-search=
ip6-privacy=0
method=auto
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/VPN Connection.nmconnection:
[connection]
id=VPN Connection
uuid=29ed565d-bf5b-45f8-b64d-e832ca4825d7
type=vpn
autoconnect=false
permissions=xxxxxxxxxx;
timestamp=1556814674
[vpn]
authtype=password
autoconnect-flags=0
certsigs-flags=0
cookie-flags=2
enable_csd_trojan=no
gateway=xxxxxxxxxxx
gateway-flags=2
gwcert-flags=2
lasthost-flags=0
pem_passphrase_fsid=no
protocol=anyconnect
stoken_source=disabled
xmlconfig-flags=0
service-type=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openconnect
[vpn-secrets]
lasthost=xxxxxxxxxxxx
[ipv4]
dns-search=
method=auto
[ipv6]
addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy
dns-search=
method=auto
Here’s an excerpt of the configuration file I found on a different account:
[vpn-secrets]
form:main:group_list=SSL
form:main:username=xxxxx
lasthost=xxxxxxxx
save_passwords=yes
The line “form:main:username=xxxxx” looked especially promising, so I copied it into my current VPN connection configuration file (the one posted above), but when I re-connected to the VPN, the line got removed again…
Any suggestions on how I can get Network Manager to remember my username?
Cheers
SUSEbus
