[Openvpn-users] Tap-Win32 non-admin add routes

[Miroslav Geisselreiter <mg@xxxxxxxx>]

I spent a lot of time testing openvpn on Win XP as power user. I am not 
able to do route add (neither pull from linux server nor from client 
config). I found two statements for OpenVPN 2.1_rc1 -- released on 
2006.10.31:

1. TAP-Win32 adapter can now be opened from non-administrator mode.

2. It includes an improved TAP-Win32 driver that allows OpenVPN to open 
the TAP interface even when OpenVPN is running without admin privs. This 
means that normal users can now run OpenVPN without using the service 
wrapper. This still has one major drawback though; You still need admin 
privs to add routes to the system so if you are depending on pushing 
routes to the client, you are out of luck.

Are the aboves rights? Will it be possible to do routing on win machines 
without admin privileges?

(Explanations: I use ikey 2032 with certificates, so I cannot use 
windows service for starting openvpn, there is no way to safely say 
password to the service. Users cannot log as admin to windows machines, 
they must not know admin passwd.)

MiG.


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