[arch-dev-public] Build openvpn in --enable-password-save option
Eric Belanger
belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA
Fri Jul 11 13:42:54 EDT 2008
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.
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