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Sir,

Please anyone tell me how to avoid username and password at each time trying to connecting to a server?

I have save username and password in the file 'pass.auth' and edited the config file as

script-security 2
auth-user-pass pass.auth

but the openVPN shows error as

Fri Feb 24 09:50:59 2012 OpenVPN 2.1.4 i686-pc-mingw32 [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Nov 8 2010
Fri Feb 24 09:50:59 2012 Sorry, 'Auth' password cannot be read from a file
Fri Feb 24 09:50:59 2012 Exiting

in 'Portable OpenVPN i can done it, but installed OPenVPN shows error.......

This is my Client Config :

# TsunamiVPN Client Config

tls-client
client
dev tun
proto tcp
remote-random
remote 173.231.57.174 443
ca tsunami.crt
route-method exe
route-delay 2
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
float
persist-key
persist-tun
comp-lzo
reneg-sec 0
verb 3
mute 3
win-sys env
script-security 2
auth-user-pass pass.auth

the message

Fri Feb 24 09:50:59 2012 Sorry, 'Auth' password cannot be read from a file

pretty much says it: you will need to recompile the OpenVPN client to support reading passwords from a file.

Sir,Sorry for disturbance. I could not get your point. i'm a newbie for OpenVPN. tell me what is recompile of cilent? (client mean config file or installer?)....please help me again

the default openvpn client does NOT allow the username+password to be stored in a file; if you're a newbie to OpenVPN that means you're out of luck, basically, unless you're willing to learn how to build your own software.

what i have to do for openVPN read username and password from a file? I hope that you'll give brief detail regarding this.....thanks in advance...

• download the sources
  install the build tools
  configure OpenVPN using

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  ./configure --enable-password-save

  build openvpn

if you want to build the Windows client: think twice before trying.