Re: --user specified but lacking CAP_SETPCAP

Hi.


On 24.10.23 07:46, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote:
> Hi,
> I see the same message. Linux capabilities? Should I install any package or...?
> 
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> ------- Original Message -------
> On Monday, October 23rd, 2023 at 8:24 PM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 
>> 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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>> feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted
>> it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
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>> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected]
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For Jason - as a reader only of this list - I was glad to see he gave up 
his parasite behavoir when others complained about it. Thanks for that.

Now Peter Davis is entering the floor with a question implying that his 
time is too precious to do a single google search. This reminds me on 
something I have seen here before.

What a luck, Peter is facing the same problem and acts as an amplifier 
top posting to a post with an issue never seen before on this list in 
10+ years ;)

I have been looking for decades for patterns all day long.

If it is true what my sensors are telling me, this list is not only 
fitting my technical needs perfectly :)

Btw, thanks to all core posters for this highly appreciated source of 
precious information and education. Keep going, this is awesome.