On 16/03/2020 14:48, Selva Nair wrote: [...snip...] >> I would just rephrase it to say: >> >> OpenVPN GUI v11 and newer uses its own internal username/password storage >> independent of the --auth-user-pass file provided. The file argument is >> ignored on such installations. > > I wish it behaved like that. Unfortunately the file argument is not > ignored in such cases. If the file has only username, openvpn.exe > reads it from the file and then fails to prompt for password as there > is no console available.
Ouch ... that is a pointless misbehavior. Lets try to fix that. > I propose to change this behaviour to: if --management-query-passwords > is set (which the GUI does), ignore the file given in auth-user-pass > and prompt both username and password from management. I think its > only logical for a later option (in this case the one set by the GUI) > to override a previous one. Anyway we do already ignore it if the file > is "stdin". Agreed! -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc
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