#734186 [strongswan-nm] The configuration of strongswan in Gnome3 fails partly. Starting the VPN fails partly too.

Package:
strongswan-nm
Source:
strongswan
Description:
strongSwan plugin to interact with NetworkManager
Submitter:
Aiko Barz
Date:
2015-11-03 11:27:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#734186#5
Date:
2014-01-04 17:14:19 UTC
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1) Configuration
I did not figure out how to setup a strongswan connection within the
Gnome3 Network Manager toolkit in the top right corner. I worked around
this by using the classic "nm-connection-editor".

2) Startup
The connections initialization fails right away. However, when doing
sudo /usr/lib/ipsec/charon-nm
first in a terminal, everything works fine.

Debian Release: jessie/sid
500 unstable ftp.de.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
=================================-+-=============
libc6 (>= 2.4) | 2.17-97
libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78) | 0.100.2-1
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0) | 2.36.4-1
libnm-glib-vpn1 (>= 0.7.999) | 0.9.8.0-5
libnm-util2 (>= 0.7.0) | 0.9.8.0-5
libstrongswan | 5.1.0-3
strongswan-ike | 5.1.0-3


Recommends (Version) | Installed
=========================================-+-===========
network-manager-strongswan | 1.3.0-1


Package's Suggests field is empty.
#734186#10
Date:
2014-01-06 17:17:15 UTC
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I think the network-manager part of the stack (in
network-manager-strongswan package) is not working correctly, but it
doesn't look really maintained these days.

Regards,
#734186#15
Date:
2015-11-03 11:24:09 UTC
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Have you tried the new version 1.3.1 of n-m-s?

Regards
Harri