[Openvpn-users] auth-user-pass makes no sense!

[Anthony Ewell <aewell@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

   Help!  I think I am loosing my mind!  :'(

   I am trying to set up a tunnel (openvpn-2.0-gui-1.0-install.exe)
that asks for a user name and password before enabling the tunnel.
I am using the "secret" option.

    From the on line manual  page, I configured
auth-user-pass-verify on the server and auth-user-pass
on the client.  I created and tested a perl script
that works in Windows for the auth-user-pass-verify option.

  The tunnel work fine with the auth-user-pass[-verify] options
commented out.

1)   When I go to fire up the client with auth-user-pass,
the error box tells me:

      Options error: --auth-user-pass requires --pull


2)  Okay, so I put the "pull" option in the client config
file.  Then it tells me:

       Parameter --pull can only be specified in TLS-mode


3)  Okay, so "tls-client" gets stuck in the config file.
Then it tells me that:

      Options error: specify only one of --tls-server,
      --tls-client, or --secret"


[Editorial comment:  AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!  If
auth-user-pass[-verify] can only be used with
"tls-client/server" and not "--secret", why is it
not documented in the man page ?!?!?]


   What am I missing; what am I doing wrong?  Is there a
better way to get a user name and password prompt?


Many thanks,
--Tony
aewell@xxxxxxxx

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