On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Jan Kiszka wrote:
James Yonan wrote:
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If it's not a windows specific problem, then I suppost it's best to add
the functionallity in the openvpn binary so we get the portability.
I don't think the openvpn binary needs to know about this. But the
service wrapper probably needs a second mode of operation, where instead
of getting its config files by scanning a directory, it listens on a local
socket for a command from the GUI to start an openvpn.exe instance.
Then don't forget that we will need a similar wrapper for unix as well...
Why do we need a wrapper in unix? Can't the openvpn binary be run as a
normal user in unix?
If we need root-privs, what's wrong with installing openvpn as suid root
and have it drop its privs after start-up?
We still need the management interface in openvpn though for all platforms
so we can check the status of the connection from a gui, but that's
another issue.
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