Public bug reported:
After a time, for example a day, OpenVPN client connections start
failing with authentication errors, even with correct credentials. A
restart of OpenVPN resolves the issue.
A redacted excerpt from /var/log/syslog :
May 5 16:23:48 openvpn ovpn-the-office[701]: <Numeric IP Address>:1194
PLUGIN_CALL: plugin function PLUGIN_AUTH_USER_PASS_VERIFY failed with status 1:
/usr/lib/openvpn/openvpn-plugin-auth-pam.so
May 5 16:23:48 openvpn ovpn-the-office[701]: <Numeric IP Address>:1194 TLS
Auth Error: Auth Username/Password verification failed for peer
May 5 16:23:48 openvpn ovpn-the-office[701]: <Numeric IP Address>:1194
[user.name] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]<Numeric IP Address>:1194
May 5 16:25:01 openvpn CRON[11969]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 >
/dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
May 5 16:25:03 openvpn ovpn-the-office[701]: <Numeric IP Address>:1194
PLUGIN_CALL: plugin function PLUGIN_AUTH_USER_PASS_VERIFY failed with status 1:
/usr/lib/openvpn/openvpn-plugin-auth-pam.so
May 5 16:25:03 openvpn ovpn-the-office[701]: <Numeric IP Address>:1194 TLS
Auth Error: Auth Username/Password verification failed for peer
May 5 16:25:03 openvpn ovpn-the-office[701]: <Numeric IP Address>:1194
[user.name] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]<Numeric IP Address>:1194
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04
#apt-cache policy openvpn
openvpn:
Installed: 2.3.2-7ubuntu3.1
Candidate: 2.3.2-7ubuntu3.1
Version table:
*** 2.3.2-7ubuntu3.1 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64
Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.3.2-7ubuntu3 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
Packages are all up to date as of 5th May 2016.
** Affects: openvpn (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Periodic failure of client authorisation
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