I didn't change anything else, but now the authentication is working. I
still don't know why it was failing consistently but now it works. The real
issue was the need to install the openvpn3-client package.

--Greg


On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 1:38 PM Greg Woods <g...@gregandeva.net> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:38 AM Greg Woods <g...@gregandeva.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have had openvpn3 working since F35, including on a laptop that I
>> originally installed openvpn3 on and it has been upgraded to F36 and now
>> F37, and openvpn3 is working fine.
>> However, on my new laptop with a fresh install of F37, I cannot get
>> openvpn3 to work. The config manager seems to be OK, but the session
>> manager is totally broken.
>>
>
> Made some progress with more careful examination of the systems where it
> works and where it doesn't, and it turns out that there is also an
> openvpn3-client package that has to be installed as well as openvpn3. This
> didn't occur to me because the openvpn3 client binary was installed. But
> when I installed openvpn3-client, the missing binary for the session
> manager was installed. So now I can get a little farther; I just need to
> figure out why user authentication is failing (I've tried it on the old
> system so I can verify I have the correct user name and password, and I
> have tried it enough times on the new system to rule out simple password
> typo as the cause). So now I can execute the session-start command, and it
> does prompt me for the username  and password, but always returns
> authentication failure.
>
> --Greg
>
>
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