[arch-dev-public] Build openvpn in --enable-password-save option
Eric Belanger
belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA
Fri Jul 11 14:12:02 EDT 2008
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Eric Belanger wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>
>> Thomas Bächler schrieb:
>>> I haven't seen TomK in a while, so I'm bringing this to the list: The
>>> auth-user-pass option of openvpn allows you to specify a plaintext file
>>> containing a username and a password. However, this feature is disabled by
>>> default. This means that everyone who wants to use it will have to rebuild
>>> openvpn.
>>>
>>> I want to enable the --enable-password-save option in our openvpn package.
>>> IMO, our users are smart enough to know the security implications of
>>> saving a password in a plaintext file. Enabling this option is completely
>>> safe if you don't use this feature.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>
>> NVM, I met TomK on IRC and he told me to go ahead.
>>
>>
>
>
> openvpn is a core package so it should go in testing for signoff. You just
> committed it to extra.
>
I just fixed it. Please start a signoff thread.
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