On So, 13.04.25 14:30, 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?
As others have indicated, this is not a query generated by systemd itself, but by some service that issues the question in the background, quite likely as part of its restart sequence. Could be http itself, or something that depends on http, or even be entirely separate. Googling for the precise wording reveals this is openvpn. I wished openvpn would actually give a bit more information in its question, to make this easier to grok. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin
