Re: PrivateInternetAccess VPN and Guix

[oury.dustin@posteo.net]

Welp. I've read of being able to run it as non-root on other distros. So 
if possible I'd love to be able to. Not sure if it's a big security risk 
to run openvpn as root or not though.

On 03.06.2019 03:34, Meiyo Peng wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> oury.dustin@posteo.net writes:
> 
>> So I managed to get it working mostly okay through installing openvpn
>> and running sudo (should I actually be running this as sudo?) --config
>> my-openvpn-config.opvn
> 
> Yes.  Running OpenVPN requires root privilege.
> 
>> Note: Attempting to use the gnome network settings did not work and 
>> complains it
>> couldn't find a vpn connection. Possibly due to how the .opvn file is 
>> formatted?
> 
> I am not a Gnome user.  No idea.
> 
> 
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