Administrator Rights TAP driver Install

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h4st3
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Administrator Rights TAP driver Install

Post by h4st3 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 4:24 am

Greetings,

I was hoping to get a definitive answer on this. Is there anyway to connect to an OpenVPN server without admin rights? I have read a bunch of articles which discuss giving users special permissions so they can use the client, but this always requires logging in as an Admin to accomplish this. I need to be able to access the vpn from public computers to which I do not have any admin rights to. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Administrator Rights TAP driver Install

Post by maikcat » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:36 pm

hi there,

which OS you are using? windows or linux?

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Re: Administrator Rights TAP driver Install

Post by janjust » Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:17 am

OpenVPN needs access to a tun/tap driver, or, on Windows, access to the TAP-Win32 driver. This driver needs to be installed before OpenVPN can work. If you don't have the rights to do so then you're out of luck.

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