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Run Open VPN as a different user #43

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partisansb opened this issue Mar 1, 2023 · 1 comment
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Run Open VPN as a different user #43

partisansb opened this issue Mar 1, 2023 · 1 comment

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@partisansb
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Hi Dragon2fly,

Me again, the problem I'm facing now is the script needs to be run as qvpn user to get through the dns on the system... I tried adding
command = ['sg qvpn -c openvpn', '--config', ovpn]
but it failed.

Where can I preappend sg qvpn -c to the openvpn command? Thanks
@Dragon2fly
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Hi @partisansb,

You could run the whole thing as a different user instead of just only the openvpn process something similar to the command below. That is much easier in my opinion.
sudo sg qvpn -c "python vpnproxy_cli.py $arg"

As for the command, I think it should be
command = ['sg', 'qvpn', '-c', openvpn', '--config', ovpn]

But since you are chaining 2 commands together, that may not work.
You may even need to pass the shell=True to the Popen's parameter which is not security recommended.

So, first, you should try to run the whole thing as a different user first.

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