CentOS - Jul 2015 - Suddenly OpenVPN not working - backgrounds prompt for username / password

Hi folks,

I'm on a fresh install of CentOS 7 and take my config that works on
Ubuntu on the same box.  Instead of getting a prompt for username and
password for the VPN I get a backgrounded task that spits this out :

[amckay at centos-gig ~]$ sudo openvpn --config /home/amckay/data/vpn.ovpn
--daemon

Broadcast message from root at centos-gig (Sat 2015-07-25 22:59:13 EDT):

Password entry required for 'Enter Auth Username:' (PID 23461).
Please enter password with the systemd-tty-ask-password-agent tool!

[amckay at centos-gig ~]$

I actually started having the same problem at work when trying to
connect to our management network.  Different config file.  CentOS 7
though.   Same config file works great on Ubuntu.

Been googling it but not much luck.

thanks,
-Alan


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So it seems that now when I use --daemon it backgrounds BEFORE
prompting for my password instead of after

So I am good as long as I don't do that.

Why this all of a sudden?

On 07/25/2015 08:05 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> I'm on a fresh install of CentOS 7 and take my config that works on
> Ubuntu on the same box.  Instead of getting a prompt for username and
> password for the VPN I get a backgrounded task that spits this out :
> ...
> Password entry required for 'Enter Auth Username:' (PID 23461).
> Please enter password with the systemd-tty-ask-password-agent tool!
So, run "systemd-tty-ask-password-agent".  You should be prompted for 
the password, there.

OpenVPN in CentOS was built with --enable-systemd, which uses the agent 
so that connections can be started as a service and still use password 
authentication.

Am 27.07.2015 um 19:41 schrieb Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at
gmail.com>:
> On 07/25/2015 08:05 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
>> I'm on a fresh install of CentOS 7 and take my config that works on
>> Ubuntu on the same box.  Instead of getting a prompt for username and
>> password for the VPN I get a backgrounded task that spits this out :
>> ...
>> Password entry required for 'Enter Auth Username:' (PID 23461).
>> Please enter password with the systemd-tty-ask-password-agent tool!
> 
> So, run "systemd-tty-ask-password-agent".  You should be prompted
for the password, there.
> 
> OpenVPN in CentOS was built with --enable-systemd, which uses the agent so
that
> connections can be started as a service and still use password
authentication.
maybe related: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1229504#c18

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