On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:06:51PM +0900, René Pavlík wrote:
> Additional info about the bug:
> 
> I looked to the initscript and I have found that there is "< /dev/null" passed
> to the openvpn binary. In the case of automatic start at system's boot, this
> argument leads to skipping the pass phrase question. When removed, everything
> works as expected (consider there is no side effect). Why is it present there?
> 

Hi René,

The stdin redirection is present to workaround a 'bug' in OpenVPN. [1]
Since I consider this bug more severe, I will remove the redirection in
the next upload.

Regards,

ALberto


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309944


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