Re: PrivateInternetAccess VPN and Guix

[oury . dustin]

Welp. I've read of being able to run it as non-root on other distros. So 
if possible I'd love to be able to. Not sure if it's a big security risk 
to run openvpn as root or not though.

On 03.06.2019 03:34, Meiyo Peng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > So I managed to get it working mostly okay through installing openvpn
> > and running sudo (should I actually be running this as sudo?) --config
> > my-openvpn-config.opvn
>
> Yes.  Running OpenVPN requires root privilege.
>
> > Note: Attempting to use the gnome network settings did not work and 
> > complains it
> > couldn't find a vpn connection. Possibly due to how the .opvn file is 
> > formatted?
>
> I am not a Gnome user.  No idea.
>
>
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