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Unneeded secret in openvpn config

See original GitHub issue

opkg reports I have the following package installed: luci-app-openvpn - git-17.315.61305-a9bddc4-1

I have configured my openvpn instance and the service fails to start. This error shows up in the system log:

Mon Nov 13 22:32:23 2017 daemon.err openvpn(pia_client)[13823]: Options error: specify only one of --tls-server, --tls-client, or --secret

Upon closer inspection, I notice the following line in /var/etc/openvn-pia_client.conf

secret shared-secret.key

This line appears to be written to the file despite the fact I never intentionally add it. Removing the line and attempting to start the openvpn service works but the line is written to the file every time I attempt to start the instance from the LUCI interface.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

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jow-commented, Jan 17, 2018

Remove the option secret from /etc/config/openvpn

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dibdotcommented, Oct 23, 2018

not a bug at all.

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