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[Openvpn-devel] Feature request: Management via Unix domain socket?


  • Subject: [Openvpn-devel] Feature request: Management via Unix domain socket?
  • From: Piet Delport <pjd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:41:17 +0200

At the moment, OpenVPN's management interface can only listen on a TCP port.

Support for listening on a Unix domain socket should be easy, and would be
simpler and more secure for some setups.  The configuration file format would
not even need significant change;  the "management" option could simply take
<filename> <mode> [<pw-file>] instead of <address> <port> [<pw-file>].  The
presence of a / in the filename would unambiguously and backward-compatably
indicate that it's a Unix domain socket, instead of TCP.

(I wanted to add this feature to http://openvpn.net/wiki/OpenVPN_2.x_wishlist,
but the wiki requires registration.  Maybe an existing user can take the time?)

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