[Mageia-dev] OpenVPN missing PID dir

[Richard Couture]

I didn't mean to open a can of worms, but since it's open ...

with script-security 2 added to the client.conf, openvpn starts just 
fine with the command   systemctl restart openvpn at client.service  UNTIL 
you add the parameter  auth-user-pass to the client.conf
Once that param is added, openvpn refuses to start via systemD though it 
starts just fine via sys5
[root at pwyr openvpn]# cd /etc/init.d/
[root at pwyr init.d]# ./openvpn restart
Shutting down openvpn:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting openvpn: Enter Auth Username:rrc
Enter Auth Password:
                                                            [  OK  ]
Since were looking at openvpn, hopefully we can figure out what this is 
all about as this param is EXTREMELY important to harden the security of 
openvpn

Thanks




Richard



On 11/25/2012 06:18 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 25/11/12 23:31 did gyre and gimble:
>> Colin Guthrie<mageia at colin.guthr.ie>  writes:
>>
>>> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 25/11/12 15:19 did gyre and gimble:
>>>> Colin Guthrie<mageia at colin.guthr.ie>  writes:
>>>>
>>>>> 1. "systemd-tmpfiles --create" is not run in the %post (before
>>>>> add-service helper) (note that on cauldron the command must be:
>>>>> "systemd-tmpfiles --create openvpn.conf"). This means that you'll need a
>>>>> reboot before openvpn will work on mga2 after installing it.
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't this be done through a rpm filetrigger?
>>>
>>> I don't think there is a way to specify which files triggered the file
>>> trigger is there?
>>>
>>> Basically we'd need to know the basename of the file that changed, also
>>> there are times when it has to be excluded (e.g. some files should not
>>> be run except at boot).
>>

>> Looks like this list is available to the script from stdin, see
>> /var/lib/rpm/filetriggers/httpd.script or
>> /var/lib/rpm/filetriggers/pear.script
>
> OK good to know.
>
> Sadly the ordering is still wrong as this needs to be run after %pre but
> before any calls to %_post_service (i.e. in %post).
>
> As a result I don't think it's really possible to automate this. It
> could be added to a filetrigger for "safety" and baked into
> %_post_service but it still doesn't cover several corner cases, and I
> don't think it's really worth the bother personally.
>
> Col
>
>

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