Re: Can a configuration item be cleared in the server.conf file
Bo Berglund <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:45:10 +0100, Bo Berglund <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:27:52 +0100, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:27:41AM +0100, Jochen Bern wrote: >>> .02) OpenVPN prioritizes command line parameters over statements in config >>> files on the theory that someone probably typed them in for *this* >>> particular execution of the openvpn binary >> >>It doesn't. It depends on ordering >> >> openvpn --config myconfig.ovpn --something foo >> >>will make "--something foo" override any occurance of "--something" in >>the config file, because it's coming *later* >> >> openvpn --something foo --config myconfig.ovpn >> >>in this case, the config file will "win". >> >>Later occurances of the same option override prior occurances - which >>for obvious reasons does not work for "turn this on" flags with no >>parameter. >> >>gert > >So there is nothing that can be done? To clarify: It seems like there is a global conf file somewhere which is used by all instances of the openvpn service, but I am confused by the various statements on how to edit this file. Please: Exactly where is this file? ( /path/to/conffile ) The flag has to be removed from this very base file the services use... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden