[Networkmanager] Networkmanager and WireGuard

[Petric Frank]

Hello,

Am Montag, 18. September 2023, 17:33:17 CEST schrieb Beniamino Galvani:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 03:53:20PM +0200, Petric Frank wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > i have imported a client config. The procedure was to place the wireguard
> > client config as /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf
> >
> > Then i did
> >
> >   nmcli connection import type wireguard file /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf
> >
> > This worked so far and the connection was immediately established with the
> > remote system.
> >
> > After import i wanted to rename the connection using the nm applet
> > (Plasma)
> > from wg0 to something else. The reason was to get a speaking name to
> > identify the connection like it was possible for other VPNs like OpenVPN.
> >
> > But this fails. It tells something like "save failed because of invalid
> > name".
> >
> > Any hints ?
>
> Hi,
>
> from what I see, plasma-networkmanager uses the "Connection name" also
> as the interface name and so there are some extra restrictions on the
> name.
>
> It doesn't seem possible to have different interface and connection
> names; this is a limitation in plasma-networkmanager because
> NetworkManager allows that. Please file a bug on the KDE issue
> tracker.

Done:
  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474658