Re: openvpn3 on F37

[Greg Woods]

I didn't change anything else, but now the authentication is working. I
still don't know why it was failing consistently but now it works. The real
issue was the need to install the openvpn3-client package.

--Greg


On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 1:38 PM Greg Woods <greg(a)gregandeva.net&gt; wrote:

>  On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 10:38 AM Greg Woods <greg(a)gregandeva.net&gt; wrote:
>
> >
> > I have had openvpn3 working since F35, including on a laptop that I
> > originally installed openvpn3 on and it has been upgraded to F36 and now
> > F37, and openvpn3 is working fine.
> > However, on my new laptop with a fresh install of F37, I cannot get
> > openvpn3 to work. The config manager seems to be OK, but the session
> > manager is totally broken.
> >
>
>  Made some progress with more careful examination of the systems where it
>  works and where it doesn't, and it turns out that there is also an
>  openvpn3-client package that has to be installed as well as openvpn3. This
>  didn't occur to me because the openvpn3 client binary was installed. But
>  when I installed openvpn3-client, the missing binary for the session
>  manager was installed. So now I can get a little farther; I just need to
>  figure out why user authentication is failing (I've tried it on the old
>  system so I can verify I have the correct user name and password, and I
>  have tried it enough times on the new system to rule out simple password
>  typo as the cause). So now I can execute the session-start command, and it
>  does prompt me for the username  and password, but always returns
>  authentication failure.
>
>  --Greg
>
>