Currently OpneVPN-MI-GUI does work without elevated privileges using
openvpn service and the management interface. I have a small user-base who
have been happily using it this way for more than a year now. In my view if
OpenVPN distribution could bundle the MI-GUI, it would be of great help.
Selva
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Jonathan K. Bullard <jkbull...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> > Yes, exactly. In essence, you have a windows service running with full
> > privileges, which is instructed by the GUI to run an openvpn.exe process
> > (with user privs, so OpenVPN can't do damage) and OpenVPN communicates
> > back to the service what should be ifconfig'ed and what routes should
> > be installed. So the network config is done by the service, and
> > undone when OpenVPN exits or crashes.
>
> That's what I am hoping for -- either an extension to the management
> interface, or an similar but separate interface.
>
>
> > Unfortunately, right now, there is nothing at all yet - there is most of
> > the code, but it's still living in Heiko's private tree. We plan to meet
> > in person in November ("Munich Hackathon") and hopefully this will
> unravel
> > the knot that's holding up this change.
>
> I look forward to hearing about it.
>
> > How do you handle things in Tunnelblick today? Run OpenVPN "as root"?
>
> Yes, exactly. I'd love to make that not necessary.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Jon
>
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