When I attempt to connect to protonvpn (free) using either the Ubuntu app or the CLI, it asks me to input the vpn secrets for the connection (e.g. FREE#4 or something like that). What is a vpn secret? I tried my protonvpn password and my user password for my computer, nothing worked.
Perhaps it’s asking for your openvpn password? I’ve never seen this behavior before.
Are you using NetworkManager (NM)? If yes then the VPN connection must be configured to explicitly save the OpenVPN password.
Open the NM widget to edit connections. Scroll and select the respective ProtonVPN connection.
In the subsequent dialog select the VPN tab.
Find the Password text box. Inside the far right of the text box should be a icon. Click once on the icon and notice the different options. Select the option to store the password for all users.
Type/copy the password and select the Save button.
If I remember correctly there should be a file $HOME/.pvpn-cli/pvpnpass. In that file should be the OpenVPN user name and password.
I hope that helps!
For Ubuntu,ProtonVPN now has a gui client,but before that you had to download the openvpn config files,then set up vpn connections through networking.
You need you openvpn I.D. and password,not your proton account I.D. and password.
After you log into protonvpn,you can hopefully find the old instructions.
I find it works much faster than the gui client.
If I remember correctly there should be a file $HOME/.pvpn-cli/pvpnpass. In that file should be the OpenVPN user name and password.
This helped me. Thanks!
Mostly correct, and probably theoretically correct, however the only option out of that list that would allow openvpn to run was “store for all users”. And even then it would still prompt for a password each time. And for some reason I would need to manually plug the password back into the config menu, then go back into network settings and select the connection and input the same password again. Changing settings to " no password " and then trying to connect would yield the connection failing. So each time I started the computer I’d have to do the whole process from the start… Didn’t save the settings, didn’t even remember the same password unless I manually added it to the settings