Hi,

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:08:16AM -0500, Selva Nair wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> 
> > We had vetos on this in the past (because we want to go for the iService),
> > but for 2.3, I would welcome such a change - it will not get the iService
> > functionality (too intrusive on the OpenVPn side), so the counterargument
> > is somewhat moot.
> 
> I suppose, both of these comments refer to running openvpn.exe as admin
> by default.
> 
> The test I posted was of requiring admin for the GUI itself (IMO, a bad
> idea).
> I just assumed requiring admin for openvpn.exe (though a better idea) would
> be vetoed at multiple levels.

Actually this is what people do today (set the shortcut to the gui to
"[X] run as admin") to work around the permission issues.

Never thought of doing this for openvpn.exe, though.  But then, I won't
claim to understand the intricacies of windows permission control and
UAC.

gert

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