Hi, we're using openvpn server with auth-pam plugin. When user fails to authenticate we get the message to all terminals on the server: AUTH-PAM: BACKGROUND: user 'username' failed to authenticate: Authentication failure
These messages are very disturbing. We find the only way to redirect these messages to the common log file - using "log-append" option. But with this option we get another problem - correct logrotation, since openvpn doesn't have a mechanism to reopen log files without restarting. This problem could be solved by logrotate option "copytruncate", but this option is not a perfect solution at all and if logrotate is not the default rotation tool in your OS, then you should additionaly install and configure it (e.g. FreeBSD with newsyslog). So, the question: is there another way to redirect these messages to log files or eliminate it at all? Or this is a bug, then should I fill a report? The solutions I see would be: 1) bugfixing if it's a bug; 2) creating additional option for redirecting this type of messages; 3) implementing a way to reopen log files on the run. Tested with openvpn 2.3.1 on FreeBSD 9.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 i386. Thank you. -- Best regards, Sergey Urushkin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
