how to include authentification?

[Faulander]

script works awesome. But i cannot add authentification to the .ovpn file.
auth-user-pass auth.txt --> auth.txt is in the same directory as namespaced-openvpn.

root@DietPi:~# /root/OpenVPN/namespaced-openvpn --config /root/OpenVPN/frankfurt_-_1_udp.ovpn
Wed Apr 25 21:30:53 2018 WARNING: cannot stat file 'auth.txt': No such file or directory (errno=2)

got it to work - included full path to 'auth.txt' in the .ovpn file

[Shivaram Lingamneni]

For the record, namespaced-openvpn should run fine out of /usr/sbin or /usr/local/sbin. Parsing of the auth-user-pass config directive is deferred to openvpn itself, which evaluates relative paths based on the working directory that the command is executing in. My setup looks like this (pseudocode):

$ cd ~/workspace/vpn_config
$ ls
config.ovpn credentials.txt
$ grep auth-user-pass config.ovpn
auth-user-pass credentials.txt
$ sudo namespaced-openvpn --config ./config.ovpn

and the actual namespaced-openvpn binary is in /usr/sbin.

namespaced-openvpn should be a drop-in replacement for openvpn to the maximum extent possible --- instances where it is not may be bugs in namespaced-openvpn :-)