On Sun, Apr 13, 2025, 22:35 Ian Pilcher <arequip...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have never seen this before. After some recent update, systemctl is > now prompting for a username when I try to start/stop/restart a unit as > root. > > # whoami > root > [root@ampersand systemd]# systemctl restart httpd > 🔐 Enter Auth Username: > > (It does work when I enter 'root' at the prompt.) > > This is systemd-256.12-1.fc41.x86_64. > > Anyone have any idea what could cause this? It looks like a `systemd-ask-password` prompt, with the text coming from OpenVPN. Those are displayed by a handler (systemd-tty-ask-password-agent) spawned by systemctl while it is waiting for the service to start – either OpenVPN happens to be starting at the same time as httpd, or it's a stale request from earlier.
