Public bug reported:
Since Friday 2-28-2014, Ubutnu 14.04 has seemingly made changes to the
way the Network Manager establishes a VPNC connection to a cisco
firewall.
Normally, you establish a VPNC connection with these steps (assuming you've
already configured the VPNC connection):
1) Click on the Network Connection manager's indicator.
2) Select "VPN Connections"
3) Select the VPNC connection's name you've previously configured.
The normal procedure requires no further steps; you typically see a
system notification soon after this informing you that your VPN
connection is now established, and then that notification fades away
without explicit effort.
Now, instead, (after step 3) a dialog pops up (unnecessarily) which has
two buttons "Connect" and "Cancel". If you click the "connect" button it
cancels! If you click the "cancel" button it connects!
I'm not proposing that this dialog be fixed, I'm proposing that it be
removed (as it was before). It is completely unnecessary; the user has
already been burdened with 3 steps that clearly indicate their intention
is to connect to the VPN. Why then prompt them again, asking them if
they want to connect?
This silly dialog is specific to VPNC connections. When I use the
network manager to vpn via OpenVPN, this unnecessary dialog doesn't
appear.
** Affects: unity
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: vpnc
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: network-manager-vpnc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: trusty
** Also affects: unity
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
- Since Friday 2-28-2014, Ubutnu 14.04, has seemingly made changes to the
+ Since Friday 2-28-2014, Ubutnu 14.04 has seemingly made changes to the
way the Network Manager establishes a VPNC connection to a cisco
firewall.
Normally, you establish a VPNC connection with these steps (assuming you've
already configured the VPNC connection):
1) Click on the Network Connection manager's indicator.
2) Select "VPN Connections"
3) Select the VPNC connection's name you've previously configured.
The normal procedure requires no further steps; you typically see a
system notification soon after this informing you that your VPN
connection is now established, and then that notification fades away
without explicit effort.
Now, instead, (after step 3) a dialog pops up (unnecessarily) which has
two buttons "Connect" and "Cancel". If you click the "connect" button it
cancels! If you click the "cancel" button it connects!
I'm not proposing that this dialog be fixed, I'm proposing that it be
removed (as it was before). It is completely unnecessary; the user has
- already been burdened with 3 steps that clearly indicate that their
- intention is to connect to the VPN. Why then prompt them again, asking
- them if they want to connect?
+ already been burdened with 3 steps that clearly indicate their intention
+ is to connect to the VPN. Why then prompt them again, asking them if
+ they want to connect?
- This silly dialog is specific to VPNC connections. When I vpn via
- OpenVPN, this unnecessary dialog doesn't appear.
+ This silly dialog is specific to VPNC connections. When I use the
+ network manager to vpn via OpenVPN, this unnecessary dialog doesn't
+ appear.
** Also affects: vpnc
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Recent Changes have broken VPNC via Network Manager
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