Keeping the VPN tunnel open after switching users on a Mac

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lazlo24
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Keeping the VPN tunnel open after switching users on a Mac

Post by lazlo24 » Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:54 pm

Hi

I have tried all sorts of things to make this work but I cannot work it out.

Is there a way to keep the VPN tunnel open AND switch to another user on the Mac version?

Thanks

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Re: Keeping the VPN tunnel open after switching users on a Mac

Post by TinCanTech » Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:02 pm


lazlo24
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Re: Keeping the VPN tunnel open after switching users on a Mac

Post by lazlo24 » Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:08 pm

Ok.

I screwed this up. Can I delete these posts and do it correctly?

klanimantsi
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Re: Keeping the VPN tunnel open after switching users on a Mac

Post by klanimantsi » Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:46 am

Haha of course you can.

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Re: Keeping the VPN tunnel open after switching users on a Mac

Post by x9p » Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:32 am

lazlo24 wrote:
Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:54 pm
Hi

I have tried all sorts of things to make this work but I cannot work it out.

Is there a way to keep the VPN tunnel open AND switch to another user on the Mac version?

Thanks
I believe if you start the daemon as root with no tty assigned, should have no problems with this setup.

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