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openvpn package

  1. Focal (20.04)
  2. Bug #1868127
  3. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1868127

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote : Re: OpenVPN will not reload due to misconfigured .service file

The "ExecReload=+/bin/kill" way of reloading without needing extra caps seems sensible. That said, I'm wondering what's the use case for a reload instead of a restart as man openvpn(8) describes what happens on SIGHUP:

SIGNALS
  SIGHUP Cause OpenVPN to close all TUN/TAP and network connections, restart, re-read the
  configuration file (if any), and reopen TUN/TAP and network connections.

I'm wondering how it is possible when OpenVPN downgraded UID/GID? Maybe it works when using the openvpn-plugin-down-root.so plugin?