Feature #14729
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OpenVPN Client Export - Support PLAP on Windows
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Description
OpenVPN 2.6 for Windows introduced support for PLAP (Pre-Logon Access Provider). With this support, users get a new icon on the login windows that they can use to enter their credentials and interactively connect to the VPN before logging in to Windows.
This helps greatly with road-warrior users, as they need to get to the domain controller before authenticating.
In order for OpenVPN to support PLAP, there are some requirements:
1. PLAP needs to be enabled in the OpenVPN installer.
2. The OpenVPN configuration needs to be stored in a different folder (config-auto instead of config)
3. The configuration needs to set a management port.
Steps 1 and 2 require changes to the generated installer. Step 3 can now be achieved by adding some Additional Configuration Options such as:
management 127.0.0.1 11456 management-query-passwords
Ideally, I'd love the client export to provide a checkbox that solves all these 3 issues at once, and once installed enables PLAP on Windows clients.
More info on OpenVPN PLAP: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui#interactively-starting-connections-before-logon
Updated by Kris Phillips about 1 year ago
- Assignee set to Jim Pingle
Assigning to Jim P since he typically maintains this package.
Updated by Pablo Bendersky about 1 year ago
Kris Phillips wrote in #note-1:
Assigning to Jim P since he typically maintains this package.
Thank you. I'm willing to give it a shot and try to contribute a patch, but I'm not sure where the source code of the package is, nor the source code for a part of the Windows installer that copies the profile to the OpenVPN folder.