Hi,
On 21/11/17 11:02, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* Jonathan K. Bullard <[email protected]>:
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt
<[email protected]> wrote:
My users primarily user Windows (OpenVPN-GUI), Tunnelblick. We do have
some Linux users (mainyly using NetworkManager) and even 4 ChromeOS
users.
Is there any way for me to display informational messages on the
users's computer when they're loggin in via VPN?
Depending on what you mean by "loggin in via VPN". Do you mean
"connecting to the VPN server",
Exactly that.
Documentation [1] for the management interface's "echo" command says
"Essentially the echo command allowed us to pass parameters from the
OpenVPN server to the OpenVPN client, and then to the management
client (such as a GUI)."
Of course it requires the GUI (such as Tunnelblick) to do something
with the "parameters". As far as I know, Tunnelblick doesn't currently
do anything with these "parameters", but I'm open to extending
Tunnelblick to do "something" with them.
...
Does the Windows GUI do anything with these "echo" parameters?
I'll have to test this.
'Core' OpenVPN certainly is not GUI-aware , and the current Windows OpenVPN GUI does not do anything with "echo" parameters -
they can/might be displayed in the status/log window, but this is usually not visible to the user. Of course, it is possible
to add an GUI-specific "up.bat" file to do something with parameters that get pushed from the server, but you'd have to add this
to all clients.
It would be useful to add something like this to the Windows GUI (and also NetworkManager , perhaps), as in some
companies&countries you need a legal disclaimer before you start to use a network/application/VPN etc.
JJK
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