[Openvpn-devel] Daemon as non-root, high priority

2004-02-05 Thread Ian Pilcher
I would like to put together a patch that will allow the openvpn daemon to run with elevated priority as a non-root user. This currently doesn't work, because the daemon changes its UID before it renices itself. Questions: * Are there any "philosophical" objections to this that would prevent

[Openvpn-devel] Idea for --ifconfig & co.

2004-02-05 Thread Matthias Andree
Hi, would it be feasible to have openvpn create interfaces (--ifconfig or something) in "down" state until a remote peer connects - unless the tunnel is marked persistent? I know I can do this with scripts, but it might be the natural choice to reflect the tunnel status in interface