Hi there;
Installed GhostBSD, installed various apps and wanted to access NordVpn. So downloaded the NordVpn server config files, downloaded openvpn and attempted to access NordVpn, with the following error message after the correct command (as per NordVpn) was entered -
sudo openvpn/home/drichardson/ovpn_udp/nl727.nordvpn.com.udp.ovpn
and my correct credentials were entered (yes I checked with the NordVpn site my credentials were correct -
2026-01-05 20:12:34 WARNING: --ping should normally be used with --ping-restart or --ping-exit
2026-01-05 20:12:34 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]213.232.87.200:1194
2026-01-05 20:12:34 Socket Buffers: R=[42080->42080] S=[9216->9216]
2026-01-05 20:12:34 UDPv4 link local: (not bound)
2026-01-05 20:12:34 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]213.232.87.200:1194
2026-01-05 20:12:34 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]213.232.87.200:1194, sid=b881106d afaf4d89
2026-01-05 20:12:34 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
2026-01-05 20:12:34 VERIFY OK: depth=2, C=PA, O=NordVPN, CN=NordVPN Root CA
2026-01-05 20:12:34 VERIFY OK: depth=1, O=NordVPN, CN=NordVPN CA10
2026-01-05 20:12:34 VERIFY KU OK
2026-01-05 20:12:34 Validating certificate extended key usage
2026-01-05 20:12:34 ++ Certificate has EKU (str) TLS Web Server Authentication, expects TLS Web Server Authentication
2026-01-05 20:12:34 VERIFY EKU OK
2026-01-05 20:12:34 VERIFY X509NAME OK: CN=nl727.nordvpn.com
2026-01-05 20:12:34 VERIFY OK: depth=0, CN=nl727.nordvpn.com
2026-01-05 20:12:34 Control Channel: TLSv1.3, cipher TLSv1.3 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, peer certificate: 4096 bits RSA, signature: RSA-SHA512, peer temporary key: 253 bits X25519
2026-01-05 20:12:34 [nl727.nordvpn.com] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]213.232.87.200:1194
2026-01-05 20:12:34 TLS: move_session: dest=TM_ACTIVE src=TM_INITIAL reinit_src=1
2026-01-05 20:12:34 TLS: tls_multi_process: initial untrusted session promoted to trusted
2026-01-05 20:12:36 SENT CONTROL [nl727.nordvpn.com]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1)
2026-01-05 20:12:36 AUTH: Received control message: AUTH_FAILED
2026-01-05 20:12:36 SIGTERM[soft,auth-failure] received, process exiting
Struggling to understand when I believe I've done everything correctly but still refuses the connection.
