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There are a lot of topics concerning this. OpenVPN Auto Connection by putting the conf file to /etc/openvpn just doesnt work. When using the Authentification type "password" an easy way to make it work is:

adding a shell script to /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d (which is executed automatically on network acitivty)

#/bin/bash
REQUIRED_CONNECTION1_NAME="wlan0"
REQUIRED_CONNECTION2_NAME="eth0"
VPN_CONNECTION_NAME="myVPN"

activ_con=$(nmcli con status | grep "${REQUIRED_CONNECTION1_NAME}\|${REQUIRED_CONNECTION2_NAME}")
activ_vpn=$(nmcli con status | grep "${VPN_CONNECTION_NAME}")
if [ "${activ_con}" -a ! "${activ_vpn}" ];
then
    nmcli con up id "${VPN_CONNECTION_NAME}"
fi

since this causes an error saying the vpn-secret is missing, you have to change the connection config in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/myVPN setting

 password-flags=0

and adding

[vpn-secrets]
password=myPassword

Now it works fine.

My question is: Is there a way to not put the password in clear text to a conf file. I know its only readable by root but cant i put like a key to it?

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  • I only just started with Ask Ubuntu, so please forgive this response for being a "solution" rather than a comment. I came to ask a similar question to yours, after a few hours of research I stumbled upon this neat liike OpenVPN plugin. openvpn-auth-file I'm still trying to get it to work, but it looks promising. Please note that I am not the author of this script, I'm only passing along the knowledge. Good Luck, hope it works for you.
    – Ten_Ten_Steve
    Apr 7, 2015 at 0:12

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