Re: logs entries not as openvpn user

Marek Zarychta via Openvpn-users <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Sep 2025 20:08:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.openvpn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
W dniu 9.09.2025 o 19:23, Dan Langille pisze:
> 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:
>
It will not run as user on recent FreeBSD, unless you disable DCO. If 
you don't care for DCO and don't need to run learn-address script, then 
please add to your config file:

user openvpn

disable-dco


-- 
Marek Zarychta



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