Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

2004-07-03 Thread James Yonan
> >>Thinking ahead, the challenge/response sequence for passing > >> authentication info should be open-ended to provide for future > >> implementation of alternative authentication methods such as Radius, > >> LDAP, NT Auth, etc. > > > > Please don't do too much of that. I've seen this auth featur

[Openvpn-devel] Release: OpenVPN-GUI for Windows v1.0-beta2

2004-07-03 Thread Mathias Sundman
I've got a new version of the GUI ready for testing. New Features: Connect/Disconnect now shows a sub-menu so each connection can be brought up/down individually. Upon connect OpenVPN-GUI will wait for 3 seconds and then check if the openvpn process is still alive and report "Connect

Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

2004-07-03 Thread Jan Kiszka
James Yonan wrote: ... Possible client -> server commands: (1) send auth credentials (2) get status (as in SIGUSR2) (3) send signal (SIGHUP, SIGUSR1, or SIGUSR2, SIGTERM) And server -> client commands: (1) need auth credentials -- GUI should query the user then return them to the daemon via

Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

2004-07-03 Thread Jan Kiszka
Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Saturday 03 July 2004 23:01, James Yonan wrote: management 127.0.0.1 20001 This will cause OpenVPN to listen on 127.0.0.1:20001 as its management interface port. It's important, of course, that the management port always be local, since we are using it to potentially

Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

2004-07-03 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Saturday 03 July 2004 23:01, James Yonan wrote: > management 127.0.0.1 20001 > > This will cause OpenVPN to listen on 127.0.0.1:20001 as its management > interface port. > > It's important, of course, that the management port always be local, since > we are using it to potentially pass passwor

Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

2004-07-03 Thread Mathias Sundman
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, James Yonan wrote: There are no hooks as of yet to control a running OpenVPN instance (other than sending signals). While I initially thought that named pipes might be the appropriate channel for this, I'm wondering if if might make more sense (for portability) to use a loca

Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

2004-07-03 Thread James Yonan
On Saturday 03 July 2004 16:40, Mathias Sundman wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, James Yonan wrote: > > On Saturday 03 July 2004 15:13, Brandon Knitter wrote: > >> Where do I start? Are the namedpipe hooks into the OpenVPN service > >> built? I'm not too familiar with named pipes on Windows (done a bi

Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

2004-07-03 Thread Mathias Sundman
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, James Yonan wrote: On Saturday 03 July 2004 15:13, Brandon Knitter wrote: Where do I start? Are the namedpipe hooks into the OpenVPN service built? I'm not too familiar with named pipes on Windows (done a bit on *nix), but I'm sure it can't be too hard. I guess what I'd ne

Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

2004-07-03 Thread James Yonan
On Saturday 03 July 2004 15:13, Brandon Knitter wrote: > Hey there. James and I had a prior discussion about the systray app > offline, but I thought I'd just poke my head in here. I'm not a strong > Windows application programmer, but I've been doing a lot of C# these days. > > With that in mind

[Openvpn-devel] Re: Interface with GUI agent

2004-07-03 Thread Mathias Sundman
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Brandon Knitter wrote: Hey there. James and I had a prior discussion about the systray app offline, but I thought I'd just poke my head in here. I'm not a strong Windows application programmer, but I've been doing a lot of C# these days. With that in mind, I was gonna whip

Re: Interface with GUI agent, was: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Patch] revoke scripts were broken

2004-07-03 Thread Brandon Knitter
Hey there. James and I had a prior discussion about the systray app offline, but I thought I'd just poke my head in here. I'm not a strong Windows application programmer, but I've been doing a lot of C# these days. With that in mind, I was gonna whip together a quickie little systray app in C# w