Error:
AUTH-PAM: BACKGROUND: user 'paul' failed to authenticate: System error
Sun Mar 13 16:41:02 2016 86.137.55.234:49377 PLUGIN_CALL: plugin
function PLUGIN_AUTH_USER_PASS_VERIFY failed with status 1:
/etc/openvpn/openvpn-plugin-auth-pam.so
Solution:
On the openvpn server install saslauthd
# aptitude install sasl2-bin
Start the daemon
# saslauthd -d -a pam -m /var/run/saslauthd/
Make simple authentication
# testsaslauthd -u paul -p 1234567 -s login
The result must be
0: OK "Success."





