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Re: Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router



On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:34:24 -0800
erikmccaskey64 <erikmccaskey64@zoho.com> wrote:

> OpenWrt isn't OpenBSD, so from the "ps" command i can see that the OpenVPN
> is runned by root. it's not so secure. How can i make it more secure?

In the openvpn configuration file:

user nobody
group nogroup

(or whatever equivalents OpenWrt has for these)

openvpn will run as root, do necessary stuff and drop privileges.

-- 
Andrej


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