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Richardds
Asked: 2019-01-18 04:19:55 +0800 CST

Connect to OpenVPN managed by NetworkManager using console

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How do I connect to OpenVPN server managed by NetworkManager configured in Gnome settings using a command line?

OpenVPN Profile in Gnome settings

Is there a way to trigger this using command from a console?

I found out NetworkManager configurations are saved in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections but how do I trigger them?

gnome networking network-manager openvpn 18.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's simple. Use the cli version of network-manager aka nmcli

    List your available connection with

    nmcli con

    to get something like

    NAME               UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE 
Ethernet           bbc6713e-2050-4c68-a66b-98607eda7e87 ethernet  enp1s0 
PIA France         476c8d97-beb7-48b2-9922-55e3062d3db9  vpn       enp1s0 
tun0               bcfa5e83-b84f-4141-b146-d3b57d496fd4  tun       tun0   
theWifi            89326285-7b0e-48e6-a67c-ce28e38a062e  wifi      --     
PIA UK London      0c2841dc-cb62-437c-948d-b7b291544387  vpn       --     
PIA UK-S           3f60a5af-cc7e-45a5-b075-c5e2eb8bc075  vpn       --

    Then you can use

    nmcli con up 'PIA UK-S'

    or

    nmcli con up 3f60a5af-cc7e-45a5-b075-c5e2eb8bc075

    Look for help with

    nmcli help
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