[SOLVED] OpenVPn Connection Isses,

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

Hi, sorry, this is my first experience with VPNs and OpenVPN so i need some basic pointers, it can be confusing running through the howto pages when i am not entirely sure what i should be doing.


i've setup an OpenVPN service to run it as a limited user using:

sudo openvpn --dev tun --user username --group users

now that i have the daemon running i am trying to connect to the UltraVPN service without any su rights using:

openvpn --config ~/UltraVPN.conf

the following warnings are output:

Thu Mar 25 20:28:37 2010 Note: Cannot ioctl TUNSETIFF tun: Operation not permitted (errno=1)
Thu Mar 25 20:28:37 2010 Note: Attempting fallback to kernel 2.2 TUN/TAP interface
Thu Mar 25 20:28:37 2010 Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically
Thu Mar 25 20:28:37 2010 Exiting

and also:

Thu Mar 25 20:27:38 2010 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled.

im not really sure what either means or how to fix them. any ideas?

Thank you.



Here is the config file:

client



dev tun



proto udp



hand-window 15



remote-random



remote servers443.ultravpn.fr 443

remote servers24.ultravpn.fr 24

remote servers21.ultravpn.fr 21

remote servers54.ultravpn.fr 54

remote servers24.ultravpn.net 24

remote servers443.ultravpn.net 443



resolv-retry infinite



nobind





# Try to preserve some state across restarts.

persist-key

persist-tun





ca '/home/axe/UltraVPN.crt'





# Enable compression on the VPN link.

# Don't enable this unless it is also

# enabled in the server config file.

comp-lzo



# Set log file verbosity.

verb 3



auth-user-pass

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

ok , i think i have sorted it, i used the --auth-user-pass option and specified a file with my credentials in.

--auth-user-pass /root/credentials.

in the file:

user username
pass password

now the only question i have is if i am disconnected will the client reconnect even though it will be running with user level privileges but the credentials are stored in /root?

the config file specifies persistent tun and persistent key, does that apply to this situation? Thanks.

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

yeh thanks for all the wonderful help i receive on this forum.