Re: logs entries not as openvpn user

Gert Doering <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Sep 2025 22:38:15 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.network.openvpn.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 04:24:48PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> I'm using openvpn-2.6.14 on FreeBSD 14.2
> 
> I've noticed these log entries:
> 
> Sep  8 18:32:02 gw01 openvpn[63572]: pro06.int.example.org/10.0.0.10:64601 OPTIONS IMPORT: reading client specific options from: /usr/local/etc/openvpn/ccd/pro06.int.example.org
> Sep  8 18:32:02 gw01 foo[38754]: pro06.int.example.org connected with IP 10.0.0.10
> Sep  8 18:32:02 gw01 openvpn[63572]: pro06.int.example.org/10.0.0.10:64601 OPTIONS IMPORT: reading client specific options from: /tmp/openvpn_cc_7e069917a782727053dbfb713ff7e3d6.tmp
> 
> Why would the second entry be running as user foo?

Ignore my previous mail, I was assuming "this is an openvpn log prefix",
but that's on the other side of "name[pid]:".

So this is from a different process than openvpn (pid=63572).  No idea
what is running there - do a "ps axwu |grep 38754" to find out...

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             [email protected]

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