[CentOS] openvpn client and KDE Network Manager - with CentOS7

Wed Oct 29 18:24:39 UTC 2014
CS DBA <cs_dba at consistentstate.com>

On 10/27/14 2:20 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:
>
> On 10/27/2014 01:13 PM, CS DBA wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am switching from Fedora20 to CentOS7 since I now run all my Linux
>> development in a VM and I get a more robust feature set (i.e. shared
>> folders with the host that "just work", etc)
>>
>> The only issue I have thus far is VPN connections. Looking at what's
>> installed on my old Fedora install I suspect I need these packages:
>>
>> kde-plasma-nm-vpnc
>> kde-plasma-nm-openvpn
>> NetworkManager-openvpn
>> NetworkManager-vpnc
>>
>> However none of these are available in CentOS7, Note I have the centos
>> extras and the EPEL repos enabled.  I suspect that I need rpmfusion but
>> I don't see that rpmfusion has a repo for CentOS7...
>
> The OpenVPN packages are in epel, and the vpnc packages are in the Nux
> Desktop repo.
>
> NetworkManager-openvpn.x86_64
>                                          1:0.9.8.2-4.el7.1
>
>               @epel
>
> NetworkManager-vpnc.x86_64
>
> 1:0.9.9.0-6.git20140428.el7.nux
>                                           nux-dextop
>
>
>
>
>> Anyone have any thoughts? Can I simply install the centos6 rpmfusion repo?
> Nope. This would make bad things happen.
>
>
>



I've installed the following packages:

/# rpm -qa | egrep 'vpn|NetworkManager'
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.9.9.0-6.git20140428.el7.nux.x86_64
NetworkManager-glib-0.9.9.1-28.git20140326.4dba720.el7_0.2.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.8.2-4.el7.1.x86_64
vpnc-script-0.5.3-22.svn457.el7.noarch
NetworkManager-0.9.9.1-28.git20140326.4dba720.el7_0.2.x86_64
openvpn-2.3.2-4.el7.x86_64
NetworkManager-tui-0.9.9.1-28.git20140326.4dba720.el7_0.2.x86_64
vpnc-0.5.3-22.svn457.el7.x86_64/

However if I click the KDE Network Manager and then click "Manage 
Connections"
the manage connections dialog box / control module that comes up has the
"Add" button greyed out for VPN connections

Anyone have any ideas how to enable the ability to add a VPN connection?


Thanks in advance