I am trying to connect to mullvad VPN using openvpn on FreeBSD 13; I
keep getting this error
reddit / freebsd

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DarthRevanG4 · 2021-12-26 10:37

Options error: --up script fails with '/etc/openvpn/update-resolv-
conf': Permission denied (errno=13)
    Options error: Please correct this error.

I am running it as root, I have tried chown root to all of the config
files placed in /etc/openvpn

I tried setting script-security level 2 as well as suggested
[here](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mullvad-via-openvpn-up-
could-not-execute-external-program.79968/) and I still keep getting
this same error.

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theRealNilz02 · 2021-12-26 10:50

The update-resolvconf Script is either Not Set executable (chmod +x)
or your OpenVPN config File has the Option user nobody set.

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DarthRevanG4 · 2021-12-26 11:06

Okay, that semi fixed it. Now I have another error.

    WARNING: Failed running command (--up/--down): could not execute
external program
    2021-12-26 03:05:07 Exiting due to fatal error

I followed what [this
person](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mullvad-via-openvpn-up-
could-not-execute-external-program.79968/) did to fix a similar error
but it did not work for me.

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Edit: Disregard this, I was able to fix it by more thoroughly reading
the above link. What did it for me was editing the script to point to
/usr/etc/local/openvpn and editing the update-resolve-conf to use
`#!/usr/local/bin/bash` using `#!/bin/bash` as suggested at the end of
the linked thread did \*not\* work.