Public bug reported:
I had a running OpenVPN setup that one day "suddenly" failed to connect.
It took a while to figure out that the certificates I've been using had
expired.
Expected:
- An error message indicating that certificates expired.
Actual:
- Generic failure to connect error message.
- Generic OpenVPN log file contents.
It might be nice to check certificate validity before handing
certificates off to OpenVPN to use. If the certificate is expired, the
far more user friendly thing to do would be to show a specific error
bubble stating that's the case.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
$ apt-cache policy network-manager-openvpn
network-manager-openvpn:
Installed: 1.1.93-1ubuntu1.1
Candidate: 1.1.93-1ubuntu1.1
Version table:
*** 1.1.93-1ubuntu1.1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.1.93-1ubuntu1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
** Affects: network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: feature
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716378
Title:
No sensible diagnostics for expired certificates
Status in network-manager-openvpn package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I had a running OpenVPN setup that one day "suddenly" failed to
connect. It took a while to figure out that the certificates I've been
using had expired.
Expected:
- An error message indicating that certificates expired.
Actual:
- Generic failure to connect error message.
- Generic OpenVPN log file contents.
It might be nice to check certificate validity before handing
certificates off to OpenVPN to use. If the certificate is expired, the
far more user friendly thing to do would be to show a specific error
bubble stating that's the case.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
$ apt-cache policy network-manager-openvpn
network-manager-openvpn:
Installed: 1.1.93-1ubuntu1.1
Candidate: 1.1.93-1ubuntu1.1
Version table:
*** 1.1.93-1ubuntu1.1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.1.93-1ubuntu1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
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