Re: [Openvpn-devel] Feature request: Client-side username/password retrieval using environment variables

2009-10-13 Thread The Zep Man
David Sommerseth wrote: Am I missing something here or? openvpn does support this already, but I'm doing it via a C plug-in ... In this case, the plug-in (which needs to be compiled) gets it from the

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Feature request: Client-side username/password retrieval using environment variables

2009-10-13 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/10/09 19:28, The Zep Man wrote: > James Yonan wrote: >> The best way to programmatically supply the username/password on the >> client side is to use the OpenVPN management interface. >> >> James > > And the worst way is by using a file on a

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Feature request: Client-side username/password retrieval using environment variables

2009-10-13 Thread The Zep Man
James Yonan wrote: The best way to programmatically supply the username/password on the client side is to use the OpenVPN management interface. James And the worst way is by using a file on a disk (which is why it is disabled by default on compilation time). How about something in between?

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Feature request: Client-side username/password retrieval using environment variables

2009-10-13 Thread James Yonan
The Zep Man wrote: Dear openvpn-devel list, OpenVPN supports verification of a username/password combination on the server-side by parsing these to a 'script' using auth-user-pass-verify'. With this, it is possible to use a file ('via-file') or environment variables ('via-env') to parse the