June 21, 2009
Changes in NetworkMonitor 0.7.1 OpenVPN Client The symptoms are: when you connect to the VPN, you can access only to the VPN sites. This is just to remind me of not going crazy every time I configure an OpenVPN connection using the NetworkManager client: go into IPv4 Settings > Routes and check Use this connection only for resources on its network (I think that was either the default set up in previous releases, or I don’t remember to had checked it in the past). Today I had my second WTF with this new feature. I had to write it down somewhere.

Changes in NetworkMonitor 0.7.1 OpenVPN Client

The symptoms are: when you connect to the VPN, you can access only to the VPN sites.

This is just to remind me of not going crazy every time I configure an OpenVPN connection using the NetworkManager client: go into IPv4 Settings > Routes and check Use this connection only for resources on its network (I think that was either the default set up in previous releases, or I don’t remember to had checked it in the past).

Today I had my second WTF with this new feature. I had to write it down somewhere.

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June 21, 2009
OpenVPN + NetwokManager + SELinux? Dear lazy web, Is there any way to run OpenVPN from the NetworkManager on Fedora 11 without SELinux getting on my way? I’ve already tried to set openvpn_enable_homedirs to on, but it doesn’t help: avc: denied { read } for pid=2815 comm="openvpn" name="mls" dev=selinuxfs ino=12 scontext=system_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:security_t:s0 tclass=file I don’t have any problems with disabling SELinux, but I’d like to learn how to fix this in the right way. Thank you! Update: I’ve filled a bug (Bug 507422 - SELinux is preventing NetworkManager-openvpn to connect to a VPN).

OpenVPN + NetwokManager + SELinux?

Dear lazy web,

Is there any way to run OpenVPN from the NetworkManager on Fedora 11 without SELinux getting on my way?

I’ve already tried to set openvpn_enable_homedirs to on, but it doesn’t help:

avc: denied { read } for pid=2815 comm="openvpn" name="mls" dev=selinuxfs ino=12 scontext=system_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:security_t:s0 tclass=file

I don’t have any problems with disabling SELinux, but I’d like to learn how to fix this in the right way.

Thank you!

Update: I’ve filled a bug (Bug 507422 - SELinux is preventing NetworkManager-openvpn to connect to a VPN).

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Filed under: Fedora SELinux OpenVPN NetworkManager