Run Open VPN as a different user

[dragon2fly]

Run Open VPN as a different user

[Dragon2fly]

Hi @partisansb,

You could run the whole thing as a different user instead of just only the openvpn process something similar to the command below. That is much easier in my opinion.
sudo sg qvpn -c "python vpnproxy_cli.py $arg"

As for the command, I think it should be
command = ['sg', 'qvpn', '-c', openvpn', '--config', ovpn]

But since you are chaining 2 commands together, that may not work.
You may even need to pass the shell=True to the Popen's parameter which is not security recommended.

So, first, you should try to run the whole thing as a different user first.