NAME

       openvpn3-service-client - OpenVPN 3 Linux VPN Client backend service

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       The  openvpn3-service-client  process  is a backend service for OpenVPN 3 Linux, responsible for a single
       VPN session.  This service will be started automatically  by  the  openvpn3-service-backendstart  starts,
       which is initiated when the openvpn3-service-sessionmgr is requested to start a new VPN session.

       It will run one openvpn3-service-client per active VPN session.

       This  service must be started by the openvpn3-service-backendstart process, as it gather more information
       from the session manager before starting the client process with the given arguments.  This process  must
       run  as  the  _openvpn  user  and  requires  no privileges.  All privileged operations, like creating and
       configuring  the  virtual  network  adapter,  IP  addresses,  routes  and  DNS,  is  handled  by  a   the
       openvpn3-service-netcfg service.

       Beware  that running this with another user account than _openvpn also requires updating the D-Bus policy
       as well.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Print  usage and help details to the terminal

       --version
              Prints the version of the program and exists

       --log-level LEVEL
              Sets the default log verbosity for log events generated by this service.  The default is 3.  Valid
              values are 0 to 6.  Higher log levels results in more verbose logs and log level  6  will  contain
              all debug log events.

              This setting will be overridden if the configuration file used contains the --verb option (see the
              openvpn(8) man page for details) or the log-level configuration profile override has been set (see
              openvpn3-config-manage(1)).

       --log-file LOG_DESTINATION
              By  default,  logging  will  go via the openvpn3-service-log service.  By providing this argument,
              logging will also be sent to LOG_DESTINATION, which can be either a filename or stdout: where  the
              latter one sends log data to the console.

       --colour
              This will add colours to log events when logging to file or terminal.  Log events will be coloured
              based on the log level of the event.

       --disable-protect-socket
              The VPN client can protect the socket being used for the UDP/TCP connection to the VPN server from
              being  routed  over  the  VPN  itself.  This makes the routing table simpler and does not need any
              specific routing entries if the default gateway is changed.  Unfortunately, this does not work  on
              all  systems  and to get a functional VPN tunnel, this socket protection needs to be disabled.  By
              setting this option, it will  not  be  possible  to  make  use  of  the  --set-somark  feature  in
              openvpn3-service-netcfg.

SEE ALSO

       openvpn3(1)    openvpn3-config-manage(1)    openvpn3-service-backendstart(8)   openvpn3-service-netcfg(8)
       openvpn(8)

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