Hi all, Please see one option how to solve the issue in this PR: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/vpnc/pull-request/4 (please don't merge yet). Some additional details and some other options (with their respective pros and cons) are in the PR's description.
Best regards, Christian On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 04:37:16PM +0200, Christian Krause wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Looks like there are some people around who need vpnc working... > > Yup, at least two bugs have been reported (probably duplicates): > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2362815 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2363531 > > > Ok, I dug up the old Cisco VPN 3000 concentrator for testing. > > > > I can reproduce the issue of the bug reports, basically in the > > current packages the real vpnc binary got overwritten - only > > symlinks and helper tools present... > > > I have a temporary patch which would allow to get the following features > > working again: > > - manual startup as root > > - startup via consoleuser (but the user has to run "vpnc-user" and > > "vpnc-disconnect-user" instead of the same names in the /usr/bin/ > directory as > > before) > > - startup as parametrized systemd service > > > > I will create a PR later in the evening so that you can have a look > > at my idea. > > Thanks. > > > I didn't manage to get the gnome/NetworkManager integration running > > again - when adding the VPN service via gnome-control-center there > > is only "Error: unable to load VPN connection editor" displayed > > (although libnm-gtk4-vpn-plugin-vpnc-editor.so is > > loaded). Unfortunately, there is no actual helpful debug information > > provided by gnome-control-center - neither on the command line nor > > via journald. > > > > Any debugging ideas? > > I don't know - best to ask NM people I think. > > Rich. > > > Best regards, > > Christian > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek < > zbys...@in.waw.pl > > > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 01:06:11AM +0200, Christian Krause wrote: > > > Hi Richard, Hi Zbigniew, Hi Lubomir, > > > > > > Thank you very much for taking care of vpnc. > > > > > > Unfortunately, I can't test vpnc anymore and so maintaining it > would > > > be hard. I mainly kept it because there was a response that it > still > > > has some use for some people... > > > > Been there, done that ;) > > > > > Are any of you interested in officially maintaining it? I would be > > > happy to re-assign vpnc. > > > > >From my side, I was only doing a drive-by contribution, to help > > with the upgrades. I don't want to get involved in maintainance. > > > > Zbyszek > > > > > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a > live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. > http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v > >
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