HI, Selva, and thanks for your input. On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Selva <selva.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jon, > >> >> Does the Windows GUI do anything with these "echo" parameters? > > > Very recently we added support for two echo "directives": > 'echo forget-passwords' and 'echo save-passwords': we use these as cue > to erase (or enable saving of) any saved passwords.
Does "echo save-passwords" **force** the saving (without letting the user not save them?) Or does the Windows GUI give the user a choice? (Or does it always only give the users a choice if "echo save-passwords" was received?.) Does it save usernames, passwords, and passphrases (for keys), or just passwords? > Echo "commands" > are meant to be directives from openvpn (pushed from server or as present > in client config) to the GUI so no need to send it back to openvpn. OK, but It isn't clear to me what the OpenVPN client software does when it gets "forget-password": does it erase the password(s) **it** has saved in memory and then pass "forget-passwords" through the management interface? Or just pass it on without doing anything? > I plan to support "echo setenv .." as a way of asking the GUI to set > some vars in the env exported to scripts and may be directives like > 'echo disable-save passwords'. Thanks. I will probably do the same for Tunnelblick. (Sometime : ) Would "echo disable-save-passwords" (two hyphens, right?) make it so the user **can't** save passwords through the Windows GUI, and otherwise they would be able to? (I am not familiar enough with the Windows GUI to know if it usually offers that to the user; Tunnelblick offers separate checkboxes to save the username and password unless they are explicitly disabled via the configuration's Tunnelblick options.) > Interpreting something like 'echo msg "blah blah"' as a message to the user > could be a useful way of passing messages. Before we do that it would > be nice to have some standardization of echo directives. Absolutely! +1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
