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After VPN installation: I need to login twice

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After VPN installation: I need to login twice

#1 Post by Onsemeliot »

Hi together,

after I installed a VPN connection on my Debian 10 (with LUKS whole disc encryption) on my Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E781 I need to login twice at each boot. First before the graphical user interface is up and secondly (like usual) at the normal graphical login screen.

The first prompt comes right after the network is successfully established:

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[  OK  ] Reached target Network is online.
         Starting OpenVPN connection to *...*
Enter Auth Username::
Do you have any idea what might cause this ... or how I could get rid of this annoyance? Should I somehow alter in what order the services during the boot procedure start?

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Re: After VPN installation: I need to login twice

#2 Post by nulix »

you could define the vpn to not start automatically, but i guess you could try to sort it out at openvpn level to see if you can insert that password on a config file... or remove the passkey from a certificate, though that may have security implications.

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Thank you for your reply. I will talk to my colleague what would be best in his view.

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#4 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Which desktop environment (or window manager) are you using?
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#5 Post by Onsemeliot »

I went with the standard GNOME 3.

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#6 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Hmm, the GNOME keyring should be handling the password (I think) so try fiddling with Seahorse.
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#7 Post by Onsemeliot »

Seahorse seems to work just fine. The key and the passphrase are there. It just doesn't seem to be running at that time in the boot process. (After the GUI is up and running I can easily enable the VPN connection without issues.)

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#8 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Does this help?

I don't use a VPN myself so I can't really help directly, sorry.
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#9 Post by Onsemeliot »

In the end I just disabled the auto-run at system start.

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