missing openvpn client password prevents successful boot
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We run an openvpn server, for staff to connect to. A coworker added a new openvpn user a week ago, and forgot the password, and today I rebooted the firewall. And nothing worked.
After many (many) hours of trying many things, I finally hooked up a USB console cable, and watched it boot, and it got to
Syncing OpenVPN settings...Enter Auth Password:
and waited. Meanwhile, I could ssh in to the firewall, but various things weren't working (surprise!) - web interface not running, no traffic passing.A missing openvpn user/client password should not prevent booting. One shouldn't have to hook up a console cable to see what's wrong.
I don't think this block shows up in the ssh console, or the web interface, or in syslog.
I see two related bugs in redmine https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10409 and https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11119 but I think they might be taking about the case where pfsense is set to connect to a remote openvpn server?
Is it reasonable to open another similar bug for this case - where a missing password for one openvpn user makes nothing work?