1551847 - Generated VPN config missing username, incorrectly-formatted

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: login.mozilla.com, defect)

Description

[Mitchell Hentges [:mhentges] 🦀]

When generating VPN config, I ran into two issues:

1. Regardless of the platform that I downloaded the bundle for, I found that username.txt was empty and (for Linux) the nmcli username-config commands were missing the username value, e.g.:

nmcli connection import type openvpn file openvpn.ber3.mozilla.com.ovpn
nmcli connection modify openvpn.ber3.mozilla.com connection.id openvpn.ber3
nmcli connection modify openvpn.ber3 ipv4.never-default true ipv6.never-default true
nmcli connection modify openvpn.ber3 +vpn.data username= # see here
nmcli connection modify openvpn.ber3 +vpn.data password-flags=0
nmcli connection modify openvpn.ber3 +vpn.secrets password=push

2. The .ovpn files are incorrectly formatted - there are newlines encoded as the string "\n" and some certs are wrapped in Python's b'...' quoting. For example (note that I've replaced all the non-"\n" contents with "."):

<cert>
b'-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n................................................................\n...........=\n-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n'</cert>

To reproduce:

1. Go to login.mozilla.com
2. Go to OpenVPN
3. Download any VPN bundle

Comment 1

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

I've resolved the bytestring issues. Still working on the empty username. I should have that figured out soon.

Comment 2

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

username file is now working.

Mind testing again?

Comment 3

[Mitchell Hentges [:mhentges] 🦀]

Looks good! Bytestrings and gone and username.txt is generated :)

Comment 4

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

Going to close this out.