Hi Gert, I’m sorry for the confusing response.
Our systems do M2M monitoring and need to run OpenVPN even without a user logged in. In previous versions we created a script run as a service (as SYSTEM) that started OpenVPN (using certificates for authentication). It also monitored tunnel status and restarted OpenVPN if necessary. We never used the GUI. So we are watching how v2.5 develops to know how we will need to implement the new version. We are also very interested in seeing what speed improvements wintun will offer. I hope that is clearer. Marvin > On Aug 18, 2020, at 11:18 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 08:55:31AM -0700, Marvin Adeff wrote: >>> An additional check in openvpn.exe whether it's started as SYSTEM could be >>> useful as well, but less critical, IMO. >> Yes Please! We run 2500+ systems that run it this way as SYSTEM. > > "this way" is quite a bit unclear here - in the thread context, > "this way" would be "run from the GUI", which never runs as SYSTEM. > > Can you elaborate a bit more how you run OpenVPN? > > gert > > -- > "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you > feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted > it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." > Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress > > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
