Unnecessary calling of `sudo ipsec status` and `sudo ipsec --version` on Arch...

[n8jadams]

I'm on Arch linux with KDE Plasma and I'm using these two repos for the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nordpy/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nordpy-plasmoid-git/

Describe the bug I ran into a weird problem where I would experience a pam faillock because of this app. You can see some back and forth details on this thread on the Arch linux forums.

Ultimately, it looks like the following commands get called fairly frequently by nordpy in the background

sudo ipsec status
sudo ipsec --version

despite the fact that I hadn't installed strongswan.

This seemed to cause the pam faillock. When I added a NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ipsec to my user in my sudoers file, the problem went away.

It seems that nord py

• shouldn't call ipsec if strongswan isn't installed
• shouldn't call ipsec status/--version with sudo at all, and if sudo is necessary, then there should be a better way to raise those privileges.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Linux Distribution: Linux-Zen kernel, Arch Distro, KDE Plasma
• NordPy version: 1.3.4

I don't know if other Arch users have run into this or if it's just due to a configuration on my own machine, but hopefully this report is helpful. I really appreciate this GUI and it has a ton of potential for us non-windows/mac users. :)

[morpheusthewhite]

Thanks for the report. I didn't experience it, even if I am also on Arch.

If you can try to run the patched version let me know if you continue experiencing the same problem.

[n8jadams]

Thanks, that seemed to have fixed it. Will you be making a new version number with this patch?

[morpheusthewhite]

I'll do as soon as I correct another problem related to ikev2