Re: [Openvpn-users] ERROR: could not read Auth username from stdin

[Davide B. <da...@gm...>]

On Monday 12 October 2009, David Coulson wrote:
> My OpenVPN clients (2.1_rc20) don't seem to happy reconnecting after the
> 'reneg-sec' timeout has passed - In this case, 28800
> 
> Oct 11 18:22:35 rhnagios01 openvpn[29141]: TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
> Oct 11 18:22:35 rhnagios01 openvpn[29141]: /sbin/ifconfig tun0
> 10.3.251.6 pointopoint 10.3.251.5 mtu 1500
> Oct 11 18:22:35 rhnagios01 openvpn[29141]: Initialization Sequence
>  Completed Oct 12 02:22:33 rhnagios01 openvpn[29141]: ERROR: could not read
>  Auth username from stdin
> Oct 12 02:22:33 rhnagios01 openvpn[29141]: Exiting
>[snip]
> auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/client/REF_hqofrrIred/credentials
> auth-retry nointeract
> auth-nocache

First thing I'd try would be to remove the auth-nocache directive.

"If  specified, this directive will cause OpenVPN to immediately forget 
username/password inputs after they are used.  As a result, when OpenVPN needs 
a username/password, it will prompt for input from stdin, which may be  
multiple  times  during the duration of an OpenVPN session."

Though I agree that if the initial credentials were supplied via a file (as in 
your case) the above behavior does not make much sense.

Or maybe it's just that you should change "auth-retry nointeract" to "auth-
retry interact" to have it try re-read the credentials (I've never used that 
so I cannot speak further).

-- 
D.