http://www.thelinuxwiki.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=openvpn_not_prompting_for_password 2026-06-14T00:17:46Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.21.5 http://www.thelinuxwiki.com/index.php?title=openvpn_not_prompting_for_password&diff=968&oldid=prev 2016-04-09T20:22:50Z

<p>Created page with &quot;==problem description== # /etc/init.d/openvpn start &lt;br&gt; command never prompts for password for the privite key configured in the default openvpn.conf file. So, it never sta...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==problem description==<br /> <br /> # /etc/init.d/openvpn start<br /> &lt;br&gt; command never prompts for password for the privite key configured in the default openvpn.conf file. So, it never starts.<br /> <br /> <br /> ==version==<br /> openvpn-2.3.10-r1<br /> <br /> O.S. = gentoo<br /> <br /> ==solution==<br /> <br /> the --askpass option needs to be passed when the program is started.<br /> <br /> the openvpn init script and conf file were examined. I didn't see a graceful way to pass the --askpass option...so, I added the following line to the init script...<br /> <br /> <br /> args=&quot;$args --askpass&quot;<br /> <br /> [[category:openvpn]]</div>

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