Re: [Openvpn-users] Compatibility from openvpn 2.4 to 2.7

[David S. <daz...@eu...>]

On 20/10/2025 14:52, Simon Matter wrote:
> While we are at it: the 'nice' option doesn't work because it's not
> allowed. This patch https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/834 makes it
> work on RHEL. Could this be integrated in the EPEL RPMs?
> 

Simon, could you post this patch as a git patch to the oepnvpn-devel
mailing list?

What you have proposed looks good to me.  Due to how the openvpn binary
works, there are few other alternatives when you try restricting
privileges than to grant the CAP_SYS_NICE privilege.


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kind regards,

David Sommerseth
OpenVPN Inc