Jordan Borgner via arch-general wrote: > Good day everyone. > I'm facing a weird problem with my vpn. It fails to authenticate users > despite the entered password is correct (copied and pasted). > > OpenVPN (version 2.5.0 on ArchLinux) itself is serviced with systemd and > runs fine. I'm using OpenVPN's auth-pam plugin to authenticate users. > You find the configuration- and logfiles below. Hello, I believe the problem might be openvpn is running as an unprivileged user with capabilities now instead of relying on openvpn itself dropping privileges. You'd have to revert those changes to allow pam access to the password files. https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/3da0f77eeae1e7bd5e877fe183ca67fc20101ad3 -- Andy
