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jotyGill / openpyn-nordvpn

Easily connect to and switch between, OpenVPN servers hosted by NordVPN on Linux (+patch leakes)
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Root access needed to kill 'openpyn-management' process #223

Closed Aquassarim closed 5 years ago

Aquassarim commented 5 years ago

Hello, first of all, thank you for this program, it's magic ! I just have a question, I don't know if it's an issue or not...

When I run: openpyn fr (with or without other options) just after openpyn has determined the better server, I am asked to give rot access through this line: [date] [NOTICE] Root access needed to kill 'openpyn-management' process and indeed, if I run: ps -aux | grep openpyn-management I can see that root tries to 'sudo killall openpyn-management' (that was not here before the run of the command).

I just wonder if it's normal or not since it is not mentioned in the given examples. I have the same behaviour with: openpyn -k

Thank you for your help!

jotyGill commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the kind words. yes this is intended. any previously running openpyn and openvpn instance is killed at the start. openpyn-management is the script that allows us to display connected/disconnected notifications.