Re: [Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread Илья Шипицин
пн, 21 дек. 2020 г. в 03:37, Greg Cox : > tl;dr - anything that lets me selectively put a message in front of my > users is great. Yes please. > > > The number one problem my users come across is expired certs. Nobody > reads logs until they're forced to. > that's interesting point. being depe

Re: [Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 07:31:42PM -0500, Selva Nair wrote: > I thought we already went through this when we discussed the proposed "echo > msg" in considerable detail 3 years ago. Yeah, sorry. Seems I got distracted and forgot all about the discussed "solution space", and just remembered th

Re: [Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread tincanteksup
Gert, using server side scripting, I can push *literally* anything I want to the server via --push-peer-info and setenv UV_* Example: setenv UV_PING 10 setenv UV_PINGRESTART 60 My server side script allows the client to effectively configure --keepalive (and a LOT more) My guess would be t

Re: [Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread Maximilian Wilhelm
Anno domini 2020 Greg Cox scripsit: Hi, [...] > So IMO, 1-2 are fundamental, 3-5 are > wishlist/consideration/extensions/ideas, use or ignore as you see fit: > * Make the ability for receiving messages on a client as described. > Enabled by default, maybe selectively disable-able because someone

Re: [Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 5:38 PM Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 04:00:13PM +0100, Arne Schwabe wrote: > > > ... and the client would then either print this on the console > > > (if !management) or dump it to management, where the GUI/Tunnelblick > > > could pick it up a

Re: [Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 04:00:13PM +0100, Arne Schwabe wrote: > > ... and the client would then either print this on the console > > (if !management) or dump it to management, where the GUI/Tunnelblick > > could pick it up and create a popup window. > > > See --echo.  That is basically what yo

Re: [Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread Greg Cox
tl;dr - anything that lets me selectively put a message in front of my users is great. Yes please. The number one problem my users come across is expired certs. Nobody reads logs until they're forced to. A notif mechanism like you're describing would be great. With that I can set up scripts th

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Remove 1 second delay before running netsh

2020-12-20 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:39:50PM +0100, Domagoj Pensa wrote: > When running various netsh commands before each 1 second sleep is added. > As more netsh commands are run, especially for Wintun adapters, that can > add to a noticable delayed connecting time. > > This should be safe. No proble

[Openvpn-devel] [PATCH applied] Re: ssl_common.h: fix 'not all control paths return a value' msvc warning

2020-12-20 Thread Gert Doering
Acked-by: Gert Doering Your patch has been applied to the master branch. commit 86d7e9902db7fcbbbc31aaa5b69bee82375caa21 Author: Lev Stipakov Date: Fri Dec 18 00:48:34 2020 +0200 ssl_common.h: fix 'not all control paths return a value' msvc warning Signed-off-by: Lev Stipakov

Re: [Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread Arne Schwabe
Am 20.12.2020 um 11:54 schrieb Gert Doering: Hi, I find myself looking for a mechanism by which I could send informational messages ("your cert expires in two weeks, go refresh!" - "your openvpn client needs an upgrade") from the openvpn server to incoming clients. Of course this should work

Re: [Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 5:55 AM Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > I find myself looking for a mechanism by which I could send informational > messages ("your cert expires in two weeks, go refresh!" - "your openvpn > client needs an upgrade") from the openvpn server to incoming clients. > > Of co

[Openvpn-devel] wanted: mechanism to send text messages to client

2020-12-20 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, I find myself looking for a mechanism by which I could send informational messages ("your cert expires in two weeks, go refresh!" - "your openvpn client needs an upgrade") from the openvpn server to incoming clients. Of course this should work with all connecting clients, that is, "text clien