Hi,

Checked it out (very remotely, trans-Atlantic flight … LOL). Works great, 
thanks! And with admin rights, it properly pushes my routes (that were broken 
with non-admin).

I want to get in to the GUI, but I sort of realized – not sure where to go from 
here. Is the plan to move to NSSM, or something else? It does impact the GUI of 
course.

Thanks again,
… Russell


From: Selva Nair [mailto:selva.n...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 6:27 PM
To: Kapetanakis Giannis <bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr>
Cc: openvpn users list (openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net) 
<openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] windows start as administrator

Hi,
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Kapetanakis Giannis 
<bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr<mailto:bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr>> wrote:
90% of our support tickets have to do with our users on windows not
running OpenVPN
as administrator. Connection seems ok but they disconnect after a while
(not able to install routes) which in normal.

I suppose you are referring to not starting OpenVPN-GUI as admin.
Is there a way to make OpenVPN installer to mark the file as "Run this
Program as Administrator" always?

It may be easier to just make the GUI require admin rights. Setting Admin 
access on a shortcut from nsis is a pain -- some versions of windows work by 
just adding a registry entry, some do not etc.
I have put up a test executable which will run as admin by default at
https://s3.amazonaws.com/selva-temp/openvpn-gui.zip
Could you please test it? The zip contains just one exec (64 bit GUI only) made 
from the latest sources. It will work only if a recent openvpn installation 
exists, but should run from any folder (assuming C:\ProgramFiles\OpenVPN\bin is 
in PATH). Do stop any GUI already running before testing.
It is not signed so will complain of unknown publisher and is tested only on 
Windows 7.

UAC prompt or prompt for admin password is a sign of admin access, but also 
test using a config that has to set routes.
Thanks,

Selva

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