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OpenVPN on a privileged port with an unprivileged user

Posted on 28/02/2010 by gionn

Remember: if you are using a privileged port for your openvpn (<1024, like 53/udp for bypassing captive portals), don’t configure privilege dropping, otherwise after the first timeout, the vpn will die with “TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address [undef]:port: … Continue reading →

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