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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. [..]
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. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.20 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org