On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 16:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
You've said you have things set to activate a VPN connection for
the
ethernet
interface, yes?
What type of VPN are you using? I don't have my VPN activated
automatically. But
when it comes to OpenVPN there are 2 choices for saving the
password. Either for one
user and encrypted or for all users and un-encrypted. I would think
that for the VPN
to be activated without your having logged-in it would have to have
been saved
un-encrypted for all users.
I just tested it on a VPN and unless I have the PW saved for all the
interface will
not come up on boot.
I think you're on to something. When I inspected the log files I found
the following that's logged during startup.
vpn-connection[]: Failed to request VPN secrets #3: No agents were
available for this request.
But I do have the 'Make available to other users' enabled in the
settings for this VPN profile. The certificate for the VPN provider is
in a folder under /home/mainuser. If that location would make any
difference?
This is a OpenVPN service by Mullvad that I'm using.