Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Heiko Hund wrote: > On Wednesday 29 February 2012 12:40:45 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> 2012/2/29 Heiko Hund >> This is way too complex solution for a simple problem. >> A proper design and discussion should take place

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Heiko Hund
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 12:40:45 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > 2012/2/29 Heiko Hund > This is way too complex solution for a simple problem. > A proper design and discussion should take place before advancing in > this route. And this was a way too simple explanation on why

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
2012/2/29 Heiko Hund > > On Wednesday 29 February 2012 11:38:17 Carsten Krüger wrote: > > > You forgot the GUI in this picture. If the service is connected to the > > > management interface the GUI can't connect anymore. > > > > ? > > If I understand you correctly it works

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Heiko Hund
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 11:38:17 Carsten Krüger wrote: > > You forgot the GUI in this picture. If the service is connected to the > > management interface the GUI can't connect anymore. > > ? > If I understand you correctly it works this way: > > openvpnserv.exe spawns openvpn.exe >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Carsten Krüger
Hello Alon, > I use [1], a simple perl/kde UI for Linux. > I deleted the .net as I did not maintain it, but it should be simple > for you to convert, or simply run the perl, and write kdialog > replacement. perfect, the gnome variant works with windows, too.

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Carsten Krüger
Hello Heiko, > However it was only an example and thus > didn't have to make any practical sense. =) :-) > You forgot the GUI in this picture. If the service is connected to the > management interface the GUI can't connect anymore. ? If I understand you correctly it works this way:

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Heiko Hund
On Wednesday 29 February 2012 11:05:36 Carsten Krüger wrote: > > [Advertisement] Maybe you want to take a look at UTM9, beta starts > > tomorrow. > Definitely! > > Is Beta available to non customers? Yes, it will be announced at http://astaro.org in the "Beta Versions" section and you can get

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Heiko Hund
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 722:09:13 Carsten Krüger wrote: > DS> Heiko can probably give a much better answer, but if I remember right, > DS> the argument was this: Think of a multi-user setup (like a Terminal > DS> Server), the management interface will be accessible for all users on > DS> that

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Carsten Krüger
Hello Heiko, > The idea to have the service do the privileged operations instead of just > starting openvpn as "Local System" (or whatever) came from the fear of > privilege escalation in the scripts that are run by openvpn. Scripting is a point, but as long as the administrator installs openvpn

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Heiko Hund
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 20:34:18 Carsten Krüger wrote: > Add the following lines to client.ovpn > > management localhost 1000 > management-query-passwords > auth-retry interact > management-hold > > and start the service.

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Heiko Hund
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 18:38:57 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > Even though, the new communication pipe between the "helper service" and > > openvpn.exe might gain more features with time, which might cover much > > of what the management interface provides today too. But we're _not_ > > trying to

Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Samuli Seppänen
>> * Improved plug-in API (v3) which can more easily be expanded in the >>future: includes support for direct access to X.509 certificate data in >>plug-ins >> [...] >> * One-to-one NAT to circumvent IP address conflicts between local and >>remote networks >> > Is there any

Re: [Openvpn-devel] openvpn windows gui

2012-02-29 Thread Samuli Seppänen
Il 28.02.2012 14:55, Jan Just Keijser ha scritto: > Samuli Seppänen wrote: We should probably write an installer. >>> I'm not sure if it's the best idea to make each and every GUI project out >>> there write it's own installer, when it's mostly a single executable that >>> needs

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN 2.3-alpha1 released

2012-02-29 Thread Jason Haar
On 29/02/12 11:47, Carsten Krüger wrote: > I found that openvpn.exe is extremly unstable on non perfectly > friendly behaving client ... Now I use the Non-Sucking Service Manager > ( http://nssm.cc/ ) instead of openvpnserv.exe to spawn openvpn.exe It > restarts openvpn.exe automatically if it's

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