Bug 711903

Summary: OpenVPN cannot do interactive login when started as a service via systemd
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adam Williamson <awilliam>
Component: openvpnAssignee: Steven Pritchard <steve>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Adam Williamson 2011-06-08 22:30:00 UTC 
systemd doesn't seem to handle OpenVPN's optionally-interactive service properly. If you're using a VPN like Red Hat's, you need to enter the password manually when starting the service, as it has a component which changes every time. The OpenVPN service is written to handle this, and prompt you for a username and password, but this doesn't seem to work with systemd: it just fires off the service non-interactively and it fails because the password is incorrect.

If I run openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/redhat.conf --daemon , it works okay.
Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2011-06-08 23:08:50 UTC 
OpenVPN should be enhanced to work with systemd password agents.

See bug 707917 where a similar problem is solved for httpd configured to ask for SSL key passwords.
Comment 2 Gerald Pfeifer 2011-06-18 03:31:33 UTC 
This is a duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704747 .
Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2011-06-18 18:01:52 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 704747 ***