I'd concur and suggest that as so many people use openvpn for 'Private
Internet Access' that would be a far more appropriate out-of-the-box VPN
add-on to ship.
That obviously has implications because it would require adding openvpn
to the seed.
PPTP is, I think, a hold over from the dial-up ISP days. I think it is
also used by some cellular modem type connections but have not seen such
in a long time. Mine are all CDC-Ethernet devices.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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Title:
Out of the box, Ubuntu Bionic offers only insecure VPN option
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
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
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