sshd vs openvpn

[Przemyslaw Iskra]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:57:48AM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> hi
> 
> we had suffered one incident when one server did not came "up" because openvpn 
> had server certificate which was protected by password and therefore it was 
> waiting for password input and no other service (sshd was crucial) was not 
> brought up until someone pressed enter.
> 

how about supplying --askpass /dev/null in default args ? or add some
--no-interactive option to openvpn code.

I think startup scripts should never wait for user input, and that
would co it.

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