On 16/12/16 16:26, Sebastian Rubenstein wrote: > What about OpenVPN 2.4 for Linux/BSD? Using the command line in a > terminal, Linux/BSD users will continue to use sudo openvpn config.ovpn, > am I correct?
Selva and JJK is correct. Currently with the OpenVPN v2.x root is needed for OpenVPN, unless you let NetworkManager take care of VPN tunnels. Which may or may not work well for you - depending on how advanced your config and needs are. With that said, I have started working on a Linux client based on the OpenVPN 3 core client library which got open sourced not too long ago. This will be a new client written from scratch, as the core client library is written in C++. In this work I take into consideration that basic Linux distributions have advanced tremendously and plan privilege separation as a core concept for the implementation. I don't have too much to show for just yet, but it is slowly moving forward and hope I can have something for the publicity within a couple of months or so, thought it won't be the final release; much more a bleeding edge development version where contributions will be appreciated. What I can say already is that the implementation will most likely be two components - user front-ends and a privileged but restricted openvpn daemon, communicating with each other over D-Bus. D-Bus + PolicyKit takes care of authentication and privilege authorization in regards to starting/stopping and otherwise managing VPN tunnels. This should also make it far easier to write various user front-ends to manage these tunnels while having a much better control of the privileges the core OpenVPN daemon requires. But as said ... the work have barely started and the first thing I had to do was to get the core client library working with mbedtls-2.3 and newer. The needed pieces to make it usable is still being carved out. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
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