I wanted to do this quick post for reference down the road. I recently updated OpenVPN to 2.5.2 and had issues with start up and also had issues with warnings related to cracklib. The first issue was starting. It was failing on the following: Jun 28 08:33:05 comp openvpn[30689]: tls_auth_file = 'ta.key' Jun 28 08:33:32… Continue reading Issues with Openvpn-2.5.2 and cracklib/startup