Openvpn as nobody fails: Options error: --status fails with '/var/log/openvpn/openvpn-status.log': Permission denied (errno=13)

Vincent Tschanz

7/30/24, 10:47 AM

Openvpn on Ubuntu 22.04

I can run successfully openvpn as superuser. Now I want to run it as user nobody before making it a service.

sudo -u nobody openvpn /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf

However I have the following error:

sudo -u nobody openvpn /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf                        
Options error: --status fails with '/var/log/openvpn/openvpn-status.log': Permission denied (errno=13)
Options error: Please correct these errors.
Use --help for more information.

I tried to chown openvpn-status.log as nobody.nogroup with 666 rights

ls -hal /var/log/openvpn/                                              
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 1 root   root      50 jui 30 12:42 .
drwxrwxr-x 1 root   syslog  3.4K jui 30 12:42 ..
-rw------- 1 root   root      18 jui 30 11:25 ipp.txt
-rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody nogroup  227 jui 30 11:24 openvpn-status.log

But I still get the exact same error. I also tried to change the status file location to /var/log/

# Output a short status file showing
# current connections, truncated
# and rewritten every minute.
status /var/log/openvpn-status.log

Still the same error.

Any idea how to proceed?

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