KDE openvpn settings to log into router

[Cake]

I switched over to Linux with KDE from windows 8 on my laptop, I can't seem to get the opvn file generated from the router to work. The opvn file worked with OpenVPN GUI for windows, but on the KDE network manager-->file --> import vpn connection, it always fails to connect. Anybody have suggestions? I spent half a day on it so far. I won't be home for 3-4 weeks, I don't feel like going back to windows.

Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> Starting VPN service 'openvpn'...
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 6677
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' appeared; activating connections
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: starting (3)
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal NetworkManager[840]: nm-openvpn-Message: openvpn started with pid 6680
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN connection 'March 2015 v1' (Connect) reply received.
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal nm-openvpn[6680]: OpenVPN 2.3.2 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [IPv6] built on Apr 13 2015
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal nm-openvpn[6680]: WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled.  See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal nm-openvpn[6680]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal nm-openvpn[6680]: WARNING: file '/home/owner/.local/share/networkmanagement/certificates/March 2015 v1/private.key' is group or others accessible
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal nm-openvpn[6680]: ******* WARNING *******: null MAC specified no authentication will be used
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal nm-openvpn[6680]: UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Aug 14 10:03:01 terminal nm-openvpn[6680]: UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2056
Aug 14 10:03:41 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <warn> VPN connection 'March 2015 v1' connect timeout exceeded.
Aug 14 10:03:41 terminal NetworkManager[840]: nm-openvpn-Message: Terminated openvpn daemon with PID 6680.
Aug 14 10:03:41 terminal nm-openvpn[6680]: SIGTERM[hard,] received, process exiting
Aug 14 10:04:01 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' disappeared
Aug 14 10:04:28 terminal NetworkManager[840]: (NetworkManager:840): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "17979648" of type 'guint' is invalid or out of range for property 'gateway-ping-timeout' of type 'guint'
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> Starting VPN service 'openvpn'...
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 6691
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' appeared; activating connections
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: starting (3)
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal NetworkManager[840]: nm-openvpn-Message: openvpn started with pid 6694
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN connection 'March 2015 v1' (Connect) reply received.
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal nm-openvpn[6694]: OpenVPN 2.3.2 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [IPv6] built on Apr 13 2015
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal nm-openvpn[6694]: WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled.  See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal nm-openvpn[6694]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal nm-openvpn[6694]: WARNING: file '/home/owner/.local/share/networkmanagement/certificates/March 2015 v1/private.key' is group or others accessible
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal nm-openvpn[6694]: ******* WARNING *******: null MAC specified, no authentication will be used
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal nm-openvpn[6694]: UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Aug 14 10:04:29 terminal nm-openvpn[6694]: UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2056
Aug 14 10:05:09 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <warn> VPN connection 'March 2015 v1' connect timeout exceeded.
Aug 14 10:05:09 terminal NetworkManager[840]: nm-openvpn-Message: Terminated openvpn daemon with PID 6694.
Aug 14 10:05:09 terminal nm-openvpn[6694]: SIGTERM[hard,] received, process exiting
Aug 14 10:05:29 terminal NetworkManager[840]: <info> VPN service 'openvpn' disappeared
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[Cake]

08/15/15 11:00:28 AM   core   NetworkManager[783]   <info> VPN connection 'March 2015 v1' (IP4 Config Get) reply received.
08/15/15 11:00:28 AM   core   NetworkManager[783]   <error> [1439650828.217144] [vpn-manager/nm-vpn-connection.c:1132] nm_vpn_connection_ip4_config_get(): invalid IP4 config received!
08/15/15 11:00:28 AM   core   NetworkManager[783]   <warn> VPN connection 'March 2015 v1' did not receive valid IP config information.
08/15/15 11:00:28 AM   core   NetworkManager[783]   nm-openvpn-Message: Terminated openvpn daemon with PID 17333.

I changed distros, this is a little more detailed, Anybody else use KDE/plasma and have issues connecting to the OpenVPN server running on the router?

 

[bbunge]

It has been a while but I remember something about running OpenVPN as root in Linux. There were some utilities that worked better for me than network manager. Take your question to the OpenVPN forum.

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[Cake]

Somewhat SOLVED.
My laptop is running Kubuntu 15.
I ran virtualbox with XP on it, and instead of running latest OpenVPN, I ran a older version from 2 years ago - openvpn-install-2.3.6-I002-i686. I am still running my router with 378.51. (haven't been home to update)

So thats the issue, some new OpenVPN security update that is not compatible with the old version I guess. Been working on getting back into my home network for 3 days. Hope this helps someone else. I bet if my router was running 55 I would not have the problem. Seems the older OpenVPN is not compatible with the latest.

By the way, this was also in the log of my laptop OpenVPN client when running latest version and failing-
SSL routines:SSL3_CHECK_CERT_AND_ALGORITHM:dh key too small

Thanks to Rmerlin and the community here for all the examples, and stuff

 

[RMerlin]

By the way, this was also in the log of my laptop OpenVPN client when running latest version and failing-
SSL routines:SSL3_CHECK_CERT_AND_ALGORITHM:dh key too small

There's your problem. You need to provide the router with a DH of 1024-bit or higher with newer versions of OpenSSL. Do a forum search on this error message, there's been a lot of discussions on this topic a few weeks ago, including ways to upgrade your DH.

BTW, if you had been running a more up-to-date version of the firmware (such as 378.55), your DH would have been automatically upgraded...