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> Strange... I don't understand what is the difference between the
> --show-pkcs11-* and the --askpass...
> Just to make sure... --show-pkcs11-slots prompt for PIN???
Yes it pops up the PIN dialog window (GUI) from the safesign middleware so
to speak.
askpass shows a prompt on stdout and reads from stdin.

> But it does!
> Use the management interface.
> Put the following in your configuration file:
> 
> management hold
> management 127.0.0.1 8887
> management-query-passwords

Yes, just what I thought :) After browsing through the beta4 source and
manual pages 'n all I saw this one as well. It has potential but for it to
be useful to a mere user (i.e. less computer literate people) a kind of GUI
wrapper has to be written. I was thinking about this along the lines of
combining it with something like:
inactive 1800
ping 10
ping-exit 60
explicit-exit-notify
tls-exit
Then writing a script or such that starts the openvpn service, connects to
the management interface, pops up a GUI dialog to ask the user for the PIN,
then sending it through the management interface.
Should be feasable. Thing is, i'm not a Windows programming-person but maybe
I can think up something simpler.

> Now start your service.
> Insert your smartcard.
> Run "telnet localhost 8887"
> 
> Enter the following commands:
> hold release
> password "XXXX token" pin

> I will write a simple perl script that does it for you soon...
If I come up with a non-perl but GUI-y like solution i'll post it to the
list as well.

Albert
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