@seth-arnold: This bug was filed against 18.04 prerelease. The only option provided to me by Bionic is PPTP, which is insecure and its use is dangerous.
- At the minimum, L2TP-over-IPsec, IKEv1, and IKEv2 should be supported by default without installation of any other packages. These are modern and robust technologies. - PPTP should not be offered by default; if the user must use it, they should have to install an additional package (or, at the very least, be presented with a warning). The insecurity of PPTP has been known since 1998. Further information justifying the complete removal of PPTP support from Ubuntu Bionic: - https://www.schneier.com/academic/pptp/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to- Point_Tunneling_Protocol#Security - https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/pptp-vpns-no-longer- supported-by-apples-built-in-vpn-client-on-macos-sierra-and-ios-10/ - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206844 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752417 Title: Out of the box, Ubuntu Bionic offers only insecure VPN option Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: network-manager lists only PPTP as an available VPN client connection type (and also offers to import a file). I'd expect L2TP-over-IPSec and IKEv1/IKEv2 options as well. In fact, most major desktop OSes have removed PPTP altogether because it's insecure, and Ubuntu should probably do so in 18.04 as well, at least from the GUI! $ apt list network-manager Llistant… Fet network-manager/bionic,now 1.10.4-1ubuntu2 amd64 [instal·lat] $ uname -a Linux machinename 4.15.0-10-generic #11-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 13 18:23:35 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch) Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1752417/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
