
l2tp saves its secrets into /etc/ipsec.d but strongswan would not read them. l2tp checks for /etc/ipsec.secrets includes /etc/ipsec.d and if not tries to write into it. Solution: Have the strongswan module create /etc/ipsec.d and /etc/ipsec.secrets when networkmanager_l2tp is installed. Include /etc/ipsec.secrets in /nix/store/hash-strongswan/etc/ipsec.secrets so that it can find l2tp secrets. Also when the ppp 'nopeerdns' option is used, the DNS resolver tries to write into an alternate file /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. This fails when /etc/ppp does not exist so the module creates it by default.
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