Am 19.10.16 um 15:04 schrieb Samuli Seppänen: > Hi, > > While preparing OpenVPN 2.4-alpha1 release the discussion about > user-specific OpenVPN configuration files came up again. To give some > background, OpenVPN-GUI can now delegate privileged operations (e.g. > route adding) to the OpenVPN Interactive Service. This means that normal > users are now able to launch OpenVPN connections without having admin > privileges. On top of that, users can now store OpenVPN configuration > files in their home directory, under %USERPROFILE%\OpenVPN\config[*]. > The rationale for this directory choice was discussed here: > > <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/pull/18#issuecomment-190138431> > > Three directory alternatives have been proposed: > > %USERPROFILE%\OpenVPN\config (current approach) > %APPDATA%\OpenVPN\config > %USERPROFILE%\.openvpn\config
Nobody wants that. That will confuse everyone. Even UNIX have learned that windows uses %APPDATA% instead of that unix hack of dot files. > > People seem to agree that %APPDATA%\OpenVPN\config would be the most > "proper" place for the configuration files. The fear was that people > don't know about it, and will not thus find it. I think if a user should create OpenVPN\config in its home or just tell them to do Windows Key+R, enter %appdata%\openvpn\config shouldn't matter. And the really clueless can still put it into C:\program files\OpenVPN\config. And even this is not really needed since we have a Import config function in the UI that will copy it to the right place. And most applications are using that folder. Why should we be special? > Of course the location > would be documented, but people probably would not read the > documentation and would get confused. Tunnelblick on OSX also keeps its config files in ~/Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Configurations It also ask you when you double click on a ovpn file if you want to import it. Windows UI also has an import functionality that will place into the right folder. > There also seems to be agreement that using %USERPROFILE%\OpenVPN\config > (=current approach) is rather invasive. However, it has the benefit that > users might actually find it without reading the documentation. > > *NIX guys would love %USERPROFILE%\.openvpn\config, and it kind of makes > sense for a cross-platform app, but Windows guys would probably be at loss. Mac OS X also does not use dotfiles. > So what should be do with this? Any directory we choose we have to live > with for a long time - replacing it with something else would break > setups for lots of users. > > I'd like to finish the OpenVPN-2.4_alpha1 release tomorrow, so I hope we > can go through the bikeshedding today :). I vote for %APPDATA% Arne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
