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

[Michael Biebl]

Jeff Licquia wrote:
> 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.

No problem.

>> 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.

Sorry, I was a bit unclear: Apparently the problem appears as soon as a root
shell is open, even if you are currently logged in as normal user.

> 
> 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.

If you encounter this problem again, can you please send me the output of
ck-list-sessions (and /var/log/auth.log).

Cheers,
Michael

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