From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: oury.dustin@posteo.net Subject: Re: PrivateInternetAccess VPN and Guix Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:10:08 +0200 Message-ID: <720c9ddc527eefb64eae558b9bd13317@posteo.net> References: <874l5enep7.fsf@riseup.net> <5d4f7556eb615c760e74f123c008988a@posteo.net> <87pnnvladb.fsf@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59800) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXlqI-00066I-0x for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 08:13:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXln2-00028g-NA for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 08:10:13 -0400 Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:59645) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hXln2-00020i-3j for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2019 08:10:12 -0400 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DD0716005D for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2019 14:10:09 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87pnnvladb.fsf@riseup.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Meiyo Peng Cc: Help guix 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. > > > -- > Meiyo Peng > https://www.pengmeiyu.com/