Hi,

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:34:42PM +1200, Michael Ludvig wrote:
> For example - can OpenVPN hold a session "cookie" and provided it's been
> recently used (e.g. within last 5 mins) and perhaps check if the client
> IP is still the same use it to re-authenticate without calling to PAM
> and OTP and all that? That would significantly improve the user
> experience while keeping the connection secured with OTP.

I think it's somewhat a matter of how long it takes to reconnect, and
whether you're using UDP or TCP - OpenVPN already does something with
session cookies (or so) inside, but I can't claim to understand how it
works.  Jan Just or James would need to explain this in detail :-)

gert

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