Re: [Openvpn-users] Running client as a service

[Craig Jackson <cjack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mathias Sundman wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 cjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I have Openvpn 2 working using tap bridge and road warrior connect. 
> > It is
> > one of the best most most well-thought out open source projects I 
> > know of.
> > My question concerns the openvpn-client2.0gui. All of the road warriors
> > need to log on to the windows domain and our Novell network, so I start
> > the client as a service and this works great. But we also need to 
> > password
> > the client pem key for security reasons. This does not work. The client
> > never prompts for the key password when the service is started but 
> > simply
> > stops and no connection is made. I tried checking service properties
> > "allow service to interact with desktop" -- does not help. Is there a 
> > way
> > to do this?
>
>
> I've intended to develop a new version of OpenVPN GUI that makes use 
> of a service wrapper and the management interface to get around this 
> problem, but never found the time todo this.
>
> Now I'm busy with another OpenVPN related project so it will probably 
> take some time before I get around developing this.
>
> But the good news is that I couldn't just let this problem stay 
> unsolved any longer, so I've put together a temporary solution.
>
> I've written a patch for OpenVPN that allows OpenVPN itself to get 
> user input directly from a dialog window instead of the console. When 
> running as a service, if you enable "allow service to interact with 
> desktop", you will now get a dialog prompting for password (or even 
> username and password, if that is what's requested).
>
> To enable this feature, use the new --win32-gui option.
>
> You can also use OpenVPN GUI in "Service only" mode to start/stop the 
> connection as a non admin user. Unfortunally the GUI is doesn't know 
> when a connection is completed when running as a service, so it will 
> report "Connected" as soon as OpenVPN is started -- but it works at 
> least!
>
> Patch:
> http://openvpn.se/files/patches/openvpn-2.0_rc16-gui.patch
>
> Pre-compiled OpenVPN binary:
> http://openvpn.se/files/openvpn/openvpn-2.0_rc16ms1.exe
>
> Enjoy!
That was indeed a quick response. Thanks, Mathias.

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