OpenVPN profile locations

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Hello,
i am having trouble with one of the VPN profiles I am trying to use. I would like to locate the .ovpn files and remove it.

I found the /etc/openvpn/directory but I cant see the profiles. If I run ls while in the etc/openvpn directory I see Client and Server.

Any idea how to locate the .ovpn file?

Thanks very much

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I use NetworkManager to setup my VPN connections.

All the connections made to any networks with or without VPN are in

/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections

Not sure if that is what you mean by VPN profiles.

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I am pretty rookie here.
I can change the directory to etc and see NetworkManager, but how would I open this to see if the .ovpn files are there?

My VPN provider uses .ovpn files that can be imported into OpenVPN that gives me network access to the VPN.

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To be clear, there are no .ovpn files in there but config files for the network connections on your system.

You could list them by: ls /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/

Locate the troublesome connection and remove it. Ex:

sudo rm /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/au333.blablablavpn.com.udp.nmconnection

Yet I am not sure what you mean by removing the ovpn file.

The ones I get from my provider, I keep them in a directory under my home: ~/.ovpn

Then I use NetworkManager to set up a VPN connections. The mentioned files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections are then created.

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Thanks very much, that was the location of the file which was a .nmconnection file. NetworkManager must rename the the .ovpn file I download from the VPN provider.

Cheers
Zut

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