Re: --user specified but lacking CAP_SETPCAP

Gert Doering <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openvpn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 11:03:27AM +0000, Jason Long via Openvpn-users wrote:
> Hello,
> My OpenVPN server started, but I got the following message in the "openvpn.log":
> 
> --user specified but lacking CAP_SETPCAP. Cannot retain CAP_NET_ADMIN. Disabling data channel offload

Well, you are starting OpenVPN in a way that it does not have the needed 
Linux capabilities.  If you start from systemd, check your unit file.

gert
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