I want to run openvpn every time I log on, but currently I run
sudo openvpn --config <myconfig> --auth-user-pass <user/pass>
every time. Is there a way to make it run that automatically and not need my password?
I could make it launch a terminal and run a script but is there a way that would not require me to type my password every time? Can I maybe give myself permissions to whatever openvpn needs so it doesn’t need sudo? How do I find out what those permissions are? Is this the right place to ask?
I’m running KDE/Plasma 6 on Manjaro should that matter
edit: Thanks all! I’m going to try the systemd option, if I can’t get that working I’ll fall back to the cronjob option, and failing that changing openvpn to not need a password for sudo and launching a script at kde statup.
Yeah OP, look into this. It’s easy once you get the hang of it, and you don’t have to make your system vulnerable by making sudo password less.
You can make sudo password-less for a single command (including using specific arguments) though, so even if using sudo were the only solution, it wouldn’t be that bad. For example, I have a sudoers entry that allows my user to decrypt my ZFS pool by executing a root-owned script (with permissions 700), but everything else requires a password.