Close stdout/stderr/stdin fds in auth-plugin fork

[gollub]

The auth-pam plugin gets forked to run in background and kept
stdin/stdout/stderr open. This might block the callee of the OpenVPN
which expect that it nicely turns into a daemon.

[Jnchi]

Any progress on this?

[cron2]

Hi,

On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 06:25:22AM -0700, kawakami wrote: Any progress on this?

Please send patches to the openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list. Our current process requires the patch to be in the list archives and ACKed on the list. PRs are - as the intro document says - not something we work with (but you cannot turn them off on github). The patch description itself sounds like something we want to fix :-) gert

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-- "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert@greenie.muc.de

[ordex]

Before considering this patch we should understand what the issue is. I am not sure how closing stdout/err could help here.

Any extra detail @gollub ?

(Sorry for the latency, but we really not pay attention to GH, as development happens on the ml)

[ordex]

@Jnchi do you know why this patch was important and what it was fixing?

[cron2]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 01:44:12AM -0800, Daniel Gollub wrote: The auth-pam plugin gets forked to run in background and kept stdin/stdout/stderr open. This might block the callee of the OpenVPN which expect that it nicely turns into a daemon.

Not sure I am following - in which scenario is this relevant? If I run openvpn with "--daemon" (which would be the expected scenario), OpenVPN takes care of that before forking plugins. This is what I see if I do "lsof -p $pluginprocess" on one of my instances using plugin-auth-pam $ ps axwu |grep pam root 16081 0.0 0.1 7744 5468 ? Ss 12:25 0:00 ./bin/openvpn --daemon tun-udp-p2mp-global-authpam --cd tun-udp-p2mp-global-authpam --config server.conf --writepid ../openvpn-tun-udp-p2mp-global-authpam.pid root 16083 0.0 0.0 7612 656 ? S 12:25 0:00 ./bin/openvpn --daemon tun-udp-p2mp-global-authpam --cd tun-udp-p2mp-global-authpam --config server.conf --writepid ../openvpn-tun-udp-p2mp-global-authpam.pid gert 16102 0.0 0.0 7764 2320 pts/0 S+ 12:25 0:00 grep --colour=auto pam $ SU lsof -p 16083 ... openvpn 16083 root 0u CHR 1,3 0t0 5780 /dev/null openvpn 16083 root 1u CHR 1,3 0t0 5780 /dev/null openvpn 16083 root 2u CHR 1,3 0t0 5780 /dev/null So - this is how it should be. gert -- "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Gert Doering - Munich, Germany ***@***.***