VPN relies on nonexistent user/group "openvpn"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager-openvpn (Debian) |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
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network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: network-
I imported a known working (in the old non-network-manager style) client config file into Network Manager's VPN settings, which could not connect. I then exported the config to another file and tried starting it on the command line. In my logs, I got the error:
Mar 24 14:37:46 localhost ovpn-client[8657]: failed to find GID for group openvpn
Upon examining the config files, the lines
user nobody
group nogroup
were changed to
user openvpn
group openvpn
but the package never created the user or group "openvpn"
There is no obvious place to work around the problem (other than by not using network manager) as I can't find a setting to change the user/group name.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 24 14:46:24 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: network-
ProcEnviron:
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: network-
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in network-manager-openvpn (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
I can confirm this for Lucid, with Network manager and OpenVPN.