Does OpenVPN support CADir format?

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi, after upgrading to Fedora 43 I noticed my OpenVPN connection was
> broken due to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/droppingOfCertPemFile
>
> I see in my journal:
>
> nm-openvpn[32218]: DEPRECATED OPTION: --cipher set to 'AES-256-CBC' but
> missing in --data-ciphers (AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:CHACHA20-POLY1305).
> OpenVPN ignores --cipher for cipher negotiations.
> nm-openvpn[32218]: Options error: --ca fails with
> '/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt': No such file or directory (errno=2)
> nm-openvpn[32218]: Options error: Please correct these errors.
> nm-openvpn[32218]: Use --help for more information.
>
> I searched NetworkManager-openvpn, NetworkManager, and OpenVPN upstream
> git repos and Fedora spec files and couldn't find any references to
> ca-bundle.crt in any of them. Then eventually I found it specified
> under my VPN configuration that's installed into
> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections:
>
> [vpn]
> ca=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
>
> Workaround is to just change the file path:
>
> [vpn]
> ca=/etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem
>
> And that worked.
>
> (Next I thought "why allow all trusted certificates?" and wound up
> selecting the particular root certificate that I expect my server
> certificate to be signed by, which also worked. Nice when things work.)
>
> Michael
>
>
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