openvpn3-service-devposture(8)

💅 NAME

okay so bestie, meet openvpn3-service-devposture — the OpenVPN 3 Linux VPN Client devposture service. she's the one doing the behind-the-scenes work, and she's so good at it. this whole page lives in section 8 of the manual, so if you need to cite her: openvpn3-service-devposture(8) 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

openvpn3-service-devposture [OPTIONS]
openvpn3-service-devposture -h | --help

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the openvpn3-service-devposture process is a backend service for OpenVPN 3 Linux, and her whole job is gathering up info about the client's environment — stuff like OS details (distro, version, etc.) — and then serving it up to openvpn3-service-client whenever that one asks. lowkey iconic behaviour. 💖

then openvpn3-service-client takes that info and forwards it to the peer during connection attempts. and the peer? she can totally veto the client based on whatever info she got. main character energy, honestly — the server gets the final say. 👑

🫶 quick heads up bestie: if you run this under any user account other than _openvpn, you also need to update the D-Bus policy. don't skip that part, it's giving "required", not "optional". no cap.

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -h, --help — prints usage and help details right there in your terminal. classic, we love her for it.
• --version — prints the version of the program and then exits. (yes, the original says "exists" — we are all just existing out here, periodt. 💀) anyway, it shows you the version and bounces.
• --log-level LEVEL — sets the default log verbosity for log events this service spits out. the default is 3. valid values run from 0 to 6. the higher you go, the more verbose your logs get, and --log-level 6 will contain all debug log events. ✨

🙈 heads up: this setting gets overridden if the configuration file you're using contains the --verb option (go peek at the openvpn(8) man page for the deets) — or if the log-level configuration profile override has been set (see openvpn3-config-manage(1)). so basically, someone else can steal the mic. 😭

• --log-file LOG_DESTINATION — by default, logging goes via the openvpn3-service-log service. if you hand over this argument, logging will also be sent to LOG_DESTINATION. that destination can be either a filename or stdout: — and the latter one sends log data straight to the console. double-dipping the logs, we love to see it 💅
• --colour — adds colours to log events when you're logging to a file or a terminal. the events get coloured based on the log level of each event. aesthetic and informative, obsessed 🌈
• --idle-exit MINUTES — the openvpn3-service-devposture service will exit automatically if she's been idle for MINUTES minutes. she knows when to leave the party, queen 🎀
• --profile-dir DIRECTORY — the directory containing the Device Posture Protocol profile definitions. these files tell the device posture service how to respond to the various device posture check requests coming from the VPN server. the default directory is:

/var/lib/openvpn3/deviceposture/profiles

put some respect on that path 🫶

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• openvpn3(1)
• openvpn3-service-client(8)
• openvpn(8)

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie — openvpn3-service-devposture(8), part of the OpenVPN 3 Linux family, serving posture realness since forever. go forth and read the source, she slays 💜🦋✨