Save username only and prompt for password

marcolino7

Hi,
i just seached into forum and over google but i found no solution.
In my config file i have auth-user-pass parameter and client prompt me for user and password.
I would like to save ONLY the username and promped for password each time i connect.
It's is possible? I', running openvpn2.2.2 on windows 7 32 bit.

Thanks

marcolino7

Up.............

CourtK

Bump. I am interested in this too. Is there a way to do this?

janjust

currently there is no way to do this in openvpn 2.2 or 2.3; the patch is fairly trivial, I guess, but nobody has bothered to write it thus far.

stefan2k1

Hi,

is there any news here? I would like to save only the username and not the password. Has this function been implemented now?

Thanks
Stefan

dishcandanty

Pretty sure for the linux client (openvpn file.opvn). You can put this in the file:

auth-user-pass file.txt

And said file has just a single line (you may want relative paths):

name

And it will prompt for just the password.

rseiler

Re the last poster, does that definitely work with the Linux client? It doesn't work with the Windows client.

If you just have the single line, it'll come back right away with an error ("Connecting to [username] has failed."). If you create a newline after it, it does the same. Perhaps there's some other nuance to this.

The manual seems to agree with you though. Could it be in reference to Linux only?

--auth-user-pass [up]

Authenticate with server using username/password. up is a file containing username/password on 2 lines. If the password line is missing, OpenVPN will prompt for one.

TinCanTech

At this time under windows, using username only in the file does not work.

TinCanTech

A more detailed explanation can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn/mailman/message/35293066/

rseiler

>We could easily make querying from management get higher priority over
>reading from file/console, but, given that the latest GUI remembers
>username, there may not be a strong need for such a feature.

Has anyone seen it do that on Windows?

TinCanTech

If you mean:

rseiler wrotegiven that the latest GUI remembers
>username

You need the latest development snapshot not the 2.3.11 release.

See here:
http://build.openvpn.net/downloads/snapshots/

rseiler

TinCanTech wroteIf you mean:
rseiler wrotegiven that the latest GUI remembers
>username
You need the latest development snapshot not the 2.3.11 release.

See here:
http://build.openvpn.net/downloads/snapshots/

I haven't been following how those pre-releases work, but the latest one there seems to still be a 2.3.11 (but a later version of it). Today, 2.3.12 was released publicly, so if version numbers mean anything, then I would think it would have it. I haven't been able to test yet.

szeestraten

Is the Windows client for 2.3.12 supposed to be able to remember only the username?
If so, how?

rseiler

I don't know. Even the 2.3.13 client doesn't do it here. Username is never remembered.

TiTex

the beta 2.4 does , and i didn't have any issues with it regarding to connect to remote servers.

rseiler

What's the trick? I just tried it with the newly-posted 2.4 RC1, which I see in the release notes has "Support for username-only auth file," but when I removed the PW from my file and tried making a connection, I got the usual immediate "Connection has failed" (same as what I get with 2.3). The log reads "Failed retrieving username or password."

Somewhere a while back I read that the end of the auth file needs to have a blank line, but that didn't work either.

rseiler

RC2 is out now. No change.

@TiTex, still waiting on you to clear up specifically how it's done.

TinCanTech

rseiler wroteRC2 is out now. No change

It works as expected ..

--auth-user-pass useronly.txt username

rseiler

There's some other variable, because that's how I've been trying it. It quickly comes back with the error I mentioned a couple message ago.

TinCanTech

rseiler wroteThere's some other variable, because that's how I've been trying it

There is some other variable because it works fine if done correctly.

rseiler wroteIt quickly comes back with the error I mentioned a couple message ago.

rseiler wroteI got the usual immediate "Connection has failed" (same as what I get with 2.3). The log reads "Failed retrieving username or password."

Sure ..

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