Re: logs entries not as openvpn user

"Dan Langille" <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:23:23 -0400

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

On Tue, Sep 9, 2025, at 1:16 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 07:07:36AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
>> That's interesting:
>> 
>> Sep  9 11:06:09 gw01 foo[26475]: my id: uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),5(operator)
>> 
>> OpenVPN runs as root.
>
> Interesting.  So does "grep foo /etc/passwd" turn up anything?

Yes, it finds the expected user (which is not actually foo).

[17:22 gw01 dvl ~] % grep foo /etc/passwd           
foo:*:1002:1002:User &:/usr/home/foo:/bin/sh

[17:22 gw01 dvl ~] % grep foo /etc/group            
wheel:*:0:root,dvl,foo
foo:*:1002:

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  Dan Langille
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