On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:39:18AM +0200, Christian Michallek wrote: > In most cases i use the Downgrade privileges to drop openvpn to user nobody. > this can cause problems, because when the push options are changed on > the server the clients will terminate. > [snip] > > /dev/net/tun is owned by root, so openvpn cant reopen the device. > > btw, i havent restarted the server by myself, the connection broke > because the dsl line disconnected, so this can happen often. > > its not very serious, you can run openvpn as root, or create the > user/group for this yourself, perhaps its even a security problem to > give the user access to tun, i dont know that. > In case its not a security problem, i would really recommend this to be > default.
Hi, Have you tried the --persist-tun option? Other --persist-* may be useful too. Regards, Alberto -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | Formación, consultoría y soporte técnico agi@(inittab.org|debian.org)| en GNU/Linux y software libre Encrypted mail preferred | http://inittab.com Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3
