Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix "--dev null"

2017-02-24 Thread Steffan Karger
Hi, On 24-02-17 14:52, Gert Doering wrote: > To test whether a server is reachable and all the key handling is > right, openvpn can connect with "--dev null --ifconfig-noexec" to > avoid needing to the client with elevated privileges. > > This was erroring out for no good reason (because the

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix "--dev null"

2017-02-24 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 04:32:14PM +0200, Samuli Seppänen wrote: > On 24/02/2017 15:52, Gert Doering wrote: > > To test whether a server is reachable and all the key handling is > > right, openvpn can connect with "--dev null --ifconfig-noexec" to > > avoid needing to the client with elevated

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix "--dev null"

2017-02-24 Thread Samuli Seppänen
Hi, On 24/02/2017 15:52, Gert Doering wrote: > To test whether a server is reachable and all the key handling is > right, openvpn can connect with "--dev null --ifconfig-noexec" to > avoid needing to the client with elevated privileges. There seems to be a typo here. Did you mean "to avoid

[Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Fix "--dev null"

2017-02-24 Thread Gert Doering
To test whether a server is reachable and all the key handling is right, openvpn can connect with "--dev null --ifconfig-noexec" to avoid needing to the client with elevated privileges. This was erroring out for no good reason (because the "set environment variables appropriately" code didn't