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.

  • exscape@kbin.social
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    3 months ago

    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.