I had a user report that OpenVPN was working fine from a cmd-line (in
Windows), but when using my GUI the Status windows was just empty, and it
was impossible to terminate the openvpn connection.
The cause was that this user was using the --log option in his config
file. When using this option, even the passphrase prompts are redirected
to the log file, however, if you know that OpenVPN is waiting for a
passphrase, you can still give in on stdin.
Would it possible to always print the passphrase prompts to the original
stdout instead of the logfile? I can't see any reason why you would want
the passphase prompt saved in the log file, or is there? OpenVPN GUI would
still not see the log output, but at least the passphrase prompt would be
showed, so the user would not get the feeling that openvpn has "hanged".
As OpenVPN GUI does not see the passphrase prompt now, it is also not
possible for the GUI to terminate the connection as OpenVPN is not
checking the exit event while waiting for user input from stdin.
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