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[Openvpn-users] Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: Permission denied (errno=13)


  • Subject: [Openvpn-users] Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: Permission denied (errno=13)
  • From: tarjei@xxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 19:24:11 +0200

Hi, I'm running SuSE linux with Openvpn Beta10 (kernel 2.4.20, SuSE 8.2).

I just thought I'd note this. I tried to run the client (not the server)
with the user and group parameters set. This did not work out. Instead I
got:

Aug  4 18:23:47 openvpn[4636]: Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun:
Permission denied (errno=13)
Aug  4 18:23:47 openvpn[4636]: Note: Attempting fallback to kernel 2.2
TUN/TAP interface
Aug  4 18:23:47 openvpn[4636]: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/tap0: Operation
not permitted (errno=1)

Commenting out the user and group params solved this issue. I'm not sure was
wrong. I tried to create a simple openvpn user and group and run openvpn as
that uid/gid, but that didn't help.

I might note that the server also runs SuSE 8.2 w/o any problems.

Tarjei



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