Hi, On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:06:53AM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: > 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.
Have you recovered from your latest adventures in "password query code
in OpenVPN" already? :-)
Not sure if the management commands permit the "we have a username but
no password" flow today... Arne, Selva?
But yes, this needs to be either a clear error, or "work correctly"
> > 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!
No, as this will break working configs *if* both username + password
are in the file (did we ever merge the "inline auth-user-pass" patch?).
gert
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