[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527975: Bug#527975: Lost ability to start OpenVPN connection after upgrade

[Jeff Licquia]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> Have you actually read the bug report? Your proposed patch opens a security hole
> and doesn't really fix the issue (it's a very ugly and bad workaround)

Thought I had, but obviously I missed that part.

> The problem you run into only happens when you are logged in as root, which is
> not the norm on linux, thus only severity normal.

I had been seeing the problem when logged in as my user, not root.

The odd thing is that, after reverting the patch and rebooting, 
everything still seems to work.  I was even able to start a root shell 
(su - in gnome-terminal), and disconnect and reconnect the VPN without 
problems.