Re: I need help from experts to understand Android filesystem permissions

Andrew wrote on Sun, 4 Aug 2024 20:38:45 -0000 (UTC) :

Do you use VPN on Android?
How do you get the VPN client to look in the desired vpn folder for the
text config file?

I solved half the problem by switching to a different opsnvpn VPN client.
 <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.openvpn.openvpn>
That VPN client has no problem reading a configuration text file from
 /storage/0000-0001/0001/vpn/config/{all my text config files put here}

So now the only issue I have is getting Android to honor the uname/passwd
file specified in the openvpn config auth-user-pass directive.

For Windows, this directive works to read the username & password file:
 auth-user-pass C:\tmp\vpn\passwd.txt
Where "passwd.txt" consists of two lines, the username & the password:
 freeopenvpn
 680025300
Assuming that's the current password, which changes a few times a day.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/QdqLKX53/freeopenvpn.jpg>

I can't get the auth-user-pass directive to work yet on Android though.
 auth-user-pass //storage//0000-0001//0001//vpn//passwd.txt

If anyone has this problem resolved, please let me know how you did it.