Frequently Asked Questions

If you keep getting a dialog “VPN Tracker can't verify the identity of the VPN gateway [your host]”, the certificate of the gateway is probably not set up correctly. Since it's important for your privacy and security, VPN Tracker does not connect to VPN gateways with invalid certificates by default. There are two ways to ignore certificate verification:

1. Trust the certificate in VPN Tracker manually

You can make VPN Tracker always accept the certificate if you know that the certificate belongs to your device and are willing to accept the risk: in the warning dialog, click on “Show certificate” and verify that the certificate is the one you expect. Then check the “Alway trust …” checkbox and press “Continue”. Subsequent connection attempts should then skip this dialog.

2. Turn off the certificate warning in the connection settings

If you are rolling out a connection to a team and you want to avoid each user having to trust the certificate manually, you can deactivate the verification in the connection settings. To do this, edit the connection, navigate to the “Advanced Options” section, expand the “Certificates” section and uncheck “Verify Remote Certificate”. Then save the connection and restart it.