On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Heiko Hund <hh...@astaro.com> wrote: >> > If the service is started by the GUI it still makes sense to use user >> > specific proxy settings, doesn't it? One could consider auto-proxy for >> > auto-started VPNs a misconfiguration, as well. Or am I mislead? >> >> If this is a service that is started, it cannot access your proxy >> without more tweaks. > > Currently not that's true, but the service interface needs to be extended to > pass data between the GUI and openvpn in the future anyways.
True. The proxy should be provided via the management interface. The OpenVPN GUI should be rewritten in order to use the management interface and only the management interface. This will solve a lot of issues especially in Windows environment. In Linux it is not that important, as OpenVPN can run in none privileged mode.
