Bug 1238733

This isn't really the proper place to report this kind of bug, as this bugzilla primarily focuses on Fedora packaging issues in the package.

Please consider to report this issue in the upstream bug tracker:
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/report
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Having that said, as a workaround can you try to add your "auth-user-pass" settings in a separate config file and read the file using an additional --config on the command line?  The --config option can be used as a kind of include statement, so adding more --config options on the command line should work.

   openvpn --config thirdparty.conf --config authpass.conf

Thanks for the info about bugzilla; I'll report this upstream.

And thanks for the tip about  a second config file: adding a second file worked a treat. I'm really glad this daemon accepts multiple config files - many don't.

In case it's of assistance to anyone else later, I've actually now split my config into 3 config files:
1. Common options (options such as mss-fix, keepalive, etc) - file is applied to multiple different connections.
2. Third-Party Vendor-shipped opvn config file (PIA as provider in this case, but I've looked into other vendors and they are largely identical for config)
3.  Connection-specific options to go hand-in-hand with vendor - sets variables such as log file location, PID file location, etc

Weirdly, the auth-user-pass option needs to go into config file 2 or 3 - putting in file 1 didn't work for me. Other settings from file 1 applied just fine, just not aks-user-pass.

(In case you're wondering why I need a per-connection setting file #3, it's because I'm concurrently running multiple daemons with differing log files and PIDs. As an aside, this is obviously an uncommon case requiring some rather interesting source-route policy-based routing. Anyway, it works really nicely now. :)

Opened as https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/573#ticket

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