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ali129
Asked: 2020-05-01 08:14:51 +0800 CST

Openconnect keeps asking for username in Ubuntu 20.04

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I recently have upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04. Everything works fine except that every time I want to connect to a VPN network with openconnect I have to enter My username and It asks me to validate the certificate. I connect to VPN network using a gnome plugin for openconnect: "network-manager-openconnect-gnome". This can be very frustrating since I have to switch between VPN connection and normal Internet connection frequently.

vpn network-manager openconnect 20.04

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found a solution by modifying manually the vpn configuration file in the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ folder.

    1. First close any active VPN connection
    2. Close the VPN GUI
    3. Open with root privilege the file corresponding your VPN settings in the /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ folder,
    4. Then find the vpn-secrets section and add your credentials
        [vpn-secrets]
    form:main:group_list=FOO
    form:main:[email protected]
    lasthost=vpn.bar.net
    save_passwords=yes
    1. Save, close (don't open VPN GUI before reboot) and reboot

    Enjoy your automatic VPN login..

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  2. For some reason I could not get this to work by editing the file. However the workaround by Etienne CHAMPETIER, from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332491#c24 works:

    nmcli con mod VPNNAME vpn.secrets 'form:main:group_list=GROUPNAME','form:main:username=USERNAME','save_passwords=yes'

    I had to setup group_list, username and save_passwords.

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  3. I managed to make it without rebooting

    killall -9 NetworkManager
nano whatever_openconnect.nmconnection
systemctl start NetworkManager
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