Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

[Jan Kiszka]

James Yonan wrote:

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Possible client -> server commands:

(1) send auth credentials
(2) get status (as in SIGUSR2)
(3) send signal (SIGHUP, SIGUSR1, or SIGUSR2, SIGTERM)

And server -> client commands:





  management 127.0.0.1 20001

(1) need auth credentials -- GUI should query the user then return them to the daemon via a "send auth credentials" command The basic mechanism of operation to enable the management interface would be to pass an option like this in the config file:

Jan

I would like to have some mechanism to fork an openvpn instance and let the new process use a specific configuration file. This would allow to start only certain VPN tunnels depending on what the user selects in the GUI.

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