Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: > > OK... but the true protection is the cryptography... So the level of > > authentication is username/password. > > > > Yes but only if it is coupled with the right certificate. > > > Have you tried the dummy scenario. > > > > Yes. Does not work. > But

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Morten Christensen
Alon Bar-Lev skrev den 27-12-2008 21:20: On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: > I just never had username configuration before... I actually don't > understand why you need it anyway :) > We are combining a certificate without password with authentification with the username and p

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: > > I just never had username configuration before... I actually don't > > understand why you need it anyway :) > > > > We are combining a certificate without password with authentification > with the username and password of the servers. > I find th

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Morten Christensen
Alon Bar-Lev skrev den 27-12-2008 20:43: On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: Alon Bar-Lev skrev den 27-12-2008 20:11: On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: > >> Unfortunately I do not know enough about programming to help out here. I >> just try to make a polite reque

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: > Alon Bar-Lev skrev den 27-12-2008 20:11: > > > On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: > > > >> Unfortunately I do not know enough about programming to help out here. I > >> just try to make a polite request when anybody talks about improving the > >>

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Morten Christensen
Alon Bar-Lev skrev den 27-12-2008 20:11: On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: Unfortunately I do not know enough about programming to help out here. I just try to make a polite request when anybody talks about improving the client-GUI. Tellme Isn't empty username or dummy one

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: > Unfortunately I do not know enough about programming to help out here. I > just try to make a polite request when anybody talks about improving the > client-GUI. Tellme Isn't empty username or dummy one ignored and replaced by the server by the CN?

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Morten Christensen
Alon Bar-Lev skrev den 27-12-2008 19:15: On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: Auth-user-pass requires, that we enter both username and password each time we start a connection. When we know that the username is on the system in the CN-field of the certificate, it will be nice not to be

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 12/27/08, Morten Christensen wrote: > Auth-user-pass requires, that we enter both username and password each > time we start a connection. When we know that the username is on the > system in the CN-field of the certificate, it will be nice not to be > forced to enter it on every connection

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Morten Christensen
Alon Bar-Lev skrev den 27-12-2008 16:38: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jochen Wierum wrote: What is not implemented - and perhaps will never be - is the possibility to extract the username out of the CN field of the certificate, because the management interface doesn't provide functions t

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jochen Wierum wrote: > What is not implemented - and perhaps will never be - is the possibility > to extract the username out of the CN field of the certificate, because > the management interface doesn't provide functions to read these data. I don't understand...

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Jochen Wierum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello Morten, a few days ago, I checked in a version which runs without administrator-rights. auth-user-pass is also implemented in trunk/. I did not release a binary version yet, because it is not well tested. But if the source is useless for you,

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-12-27 Thread Morten Christensen
Jochen Wierum skrev den 16-11-2008 16:50: Morten Christensen wrote: Jochen Wierum skrev den 11-10-2008 23:19: Hi, My name is Jochen Wierum and I'm a student at a university of applied science in Germany. We work with OpenVPN there. Since a few weeks, we also have the option to use Smar

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-11-16 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 11/16/08, Carsten Krüger wrote: > Hello Alon, > > > > Also, you can let the user to write his own configuration while you > > just manage the connect/disconnect/authentication phases. > > I think this would be best for advance users. > > > Did the management interface allow this? That would

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-11-16 Thread Carsten Krüger
> Did the management interface allow this? That would be a security > problem. --route-method exe it would be even greater greetings Carsten PS: That's not a gui problem but a clear management interface one.

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-11-16 Thread Carsten Krüger
Hello Alon, > Also, you can let the user to write his own configuration while you > just manage the connect/disconnect/authentication phases. > I think this would be best for advance users. Did the management interface allow this? That would be a security problem. Administrator setup two OpenVPN

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-11-16 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 11/16/08, Jochen Wierum wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi Alon, > > > > You should not do this. > > You should only use the management interface for all tasks. > > I know... but this brings new problems: if the configuration is invalid, > OpenVPN prints a wa

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-11-16 Thread Jochen Wierum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Morten Christensen wrote: > Jochen Wierum skrev den 11-10-2008 23:19: >> Hi, >> >> My name is Jochen Wierum and I'm a student at a university of applied >> science in Germany. We work with OpenVPN there. Since a few weeks, we >> also have the option

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-11-16 Thread Jochen Wierum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Alon, > You should not do this. > You should only use the management interface for all tasks. I know... but this brings new problems: if the configuration is invalid, OpenVPN prints a warning to stderr, but not to the management interface. That m

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-11-15 Thread Morten Christensen
Jochen Wierum skrev den 11-10-2008 23:19: Hi, My name is Jochen Wierum and I'm a student at a university of applied science in Germany. We work with OpenVPN there. Since a few weeks, we also have the option to use SmartCards instead of pkcs12 files. One problem was, that we have laptops which a

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-10-12 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
You should not do this. You should only use the management interface for all tasks. Your configuration should contain the following: auth-retry nointeract management-hold management-signal management-query-passwords management-forget-disconnect So that you can stop/start tunnel using signal SIGUS

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-10-12 Thread Jochen Wierum
The Problem is that I read STDIN and STDOUT of OpenVPN. To do this, I have to run my Application at least with the same rights as OpenVPN. OpenVPN has to run as admin to control the routes and the Tap-Device. So my application has a problem. If somebody knows a solution how to run a program as adm

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-10-11 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Great! I was expected PKCS#11 enabled GUI for a long time! But why does it need administrative rights? Alon. On 10/11/08, Jochen Wierum wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Jochen Wierum and I'm a student at a university of applied > science in Germany. We work with OpenVPN there. Since a few weeks, we

[Openvpn-devel] Alternative GUI for OpenVPN

2008-10-11 Thread Jochen Wierum
Hi, My name is Jochen Wierum and I'm a student at a university of applied science in Germany. We work with OpenVPN there. Since a few weeks, we also have the option to use SmartCards instead of pkcs12 files. One problem was, that we have laptops which are used by many people with different SmartC