If you look in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections, you'll see that all of the PIA files have been successfully installed. This lack of password requesting turns out to be the real kicker (and diagnostic for the fix presented down below).
#Ubuntu 14.04.2 lts gui install#
More importantly (to the lack of feedback, anyway), you are not asked for your PIA password (having put in your username in the install process). Your wifi radial doesn't change, flash, or provide any indication that something has gone right or wrong. That said, when you try to connect to a PIA-point in the Network Manager, nothing happens. If you try this in Ubuntu 14.04, everything more-or-less looks and runs the same way. If you sign up for an account with Private Internet Access (and this may go for some other VPN providers as well) and follow the only prominent Ubuntu link (12.04) in the Support Section ( you'll be taken to a reasonably straightforward 9-step process that walks you through the OpenVPN setup – from the install_ubuntu.sh script download to the selection of PIA-points (I just made that up) in your Network Manager GUI (that radial wifi icon or arrows in the upper-right corner). Sed -i 's/password-flags=1/password-flags=0/g' "$" Simply replace "" with your actual password (and no brackets), same the below as some_name.script (or whatever), chmod +x some_name.script to make it official, and you're good to go to make the additional mod.Ĭd /etc/NetworkManager/system-connectionsĮxport pwd="\n\npassword=" Thanks to Lucas Nell (on 26 April – that's my bad) for taking one additional step out of the whole process with the script below. Update: – Doesn't happen often and is always nice to see.
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