Hi, On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Kapetanakis Giannis < bil...@edu.physics.uoc.gr> wrote:
> > On 11/12/15 23:25, Selva Nair wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: > >> >> Actually this is what people do today (set the shortcut to the gui to >> "[X] run as admin") to work around the permission issues. >> > > I see, so the suggestion is to distribute the GUI with run-as-admin turned > on. > That's easy to do and has no apparent side effects (as my test exec shows), > but personally I don't like it :-( > > > Yes please :) > > I don't like it either but is there any alternative to that? > Except for the services path, we need ideally a single installer that > after the installation (+the config files) > is workable. Don't know how other VPN clients manage to install routes on > windows but it seems that OpenVPN does not for so many years now. > Admin privilage is required to set set routes (except the ones DHCP can handle). The reason why its getting noticed more and more in recent years is due to UAC preventing automatic elevation even when the user is admin (starting with Vista?). Anyway OpenVPN is supposed to be started as administrator (right click on the GUI icon and choose to run as administrator) or make a short cut to the GUI and set the link property to run as administrator. The proposal is to make this work out of the box. Note that either way will work only if the user is already administrator or has the admin password/credentials at hand. Is MI-GUI solving this problem? Haven't heard of it before. If yes, maybe > it should be included in the setup instead of the -GUI. > MI-GUI caters to a different use case: If the user cannot be given admin rights, the administrator may use the service or NSSM to start openvpn.exe at boot. Then the user can start and stop the connections, interactively supply passwords etc using the MI-GUI. Selva
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