Hi, While preparing OpenVPN 2.4-alpha1 release the discussion about user-specific OpenVPN configuration files came up again. To give some background, OpenVPN-GUI can now delegate privileged operations (e.g. route adding) to the OpenVPN Interactive Service. This means that normal users are now able to launch OpenVPN connections without having admin privileges. On top of that, users can now store OpenVPN configuration files in their home directory, under %USERPROFILE%\OpenVPN\config[*]. The rationale for this directory choice was discussed here:
<https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/pull/18#issuecomment-190138431> Three directory alternatives have been proposed: %USERPROFILE%\OpenVPN\config (current approach) %APPDATA%\OpenVPN\config %USERPROFILE%\.openvpn\config People seem to agree that %APPDATA%\OpenVPN\config would be the most "proper" place for the configuration files. The fear was that people don't know about it, and will not thus find it. Of course the location would be documented, but people probably would not read the documentation and would get confused. There also seems to be agreement that using %USERPROFILE%\OpenVPN\config (=current approach) is rather invasive. However, it has the benefit that users might actually find it without reading the documentation. *NIX guys would love %USERPROFILE%\.openvpn\config, and it kind of makes sense for a cross-platform app, but Windows guys would probably be at loss. So what should be do with this? Any directory we choose we have to live with for a long time - replacing it with something else would break setups for lots of users. I'd like to finish the OpenVPN-2.4_alpha1 release tomorrow, so I hope we can go through the bikeshedding today :). Best regards, -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock [*] With the caveat that they need to be either in the built-in administrator group, or in "OpenVPN administrators" group, to actually use OpenVPN configurations stored in their home directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
