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On Sun November 4 2007 16:33, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Sun, 04 Nov 2007, by carlos.lange@ualberta.ca:
Hi,
My department switched last week to openVPN at the firewall and it is closing the SSH port. I can connect to the server as root running "openvpn --config client.ovpn" (with the config file provided by the department) and everything seems to work, even NX, as long as I keep that connection open.
But I would like to use a GUI tool to make the connection more convenient for the students in my lab.
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Is there another GUI, like KnetworkManager, that starts an openVPN connection without requiring root password?
Add the user to sudoers
User_Alias VPNusers = user1, user2 VPNusers ALL (ALL) /usr/sbin/rcopenvpn
Then make a desktop link to a short script and make sure you check 'run in a terminal':
#!/bin/sh if ! /sbin/checkproc /usr/sbin/openvpn; then /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/rcopenvpn start elif /sbin/checkproc /usr/sbin/openvpn; then /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/rcopenvpn stop fi
Put your config file in /etc/openvpn/ and it will be used by the init script.
Thanks for the detailed instructions. I was thinking of trying something like that if I don't get a GUI tool that works, but I didn't know about rcopenvpn. I notice that it requires the configuration file in /etc/openvpn to be called *.conf, which I changed in my file. This may be the way to go. -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org