On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 4:35 PM Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 03:45:26PM -0400, Selva Nair wrote:
> > Is it worth the trouble? Isn't  this use case arising from wanting to use
> > the GUI for something that it's not?
>
> Yeah, maybe it's the wrong approach, and a CLI tool might be better.
>
> OTOH, I'm not sure how that would play out with "openvpn has been started,
> and the CLI tool now returns and all connection to the running process
> is lost" (so, how to stop it?).
>

Management interface? Just to stop gracefully one could use --exit-event

A CLI that uses the interactive service to start openvpn.exe optionally
with a management password would be interesting to have. Sending commands
to the management i/f from a python or perl script [*] should be easy?
Maybe even from powershell for those into that kind of stuff.

Selva
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