- Implement connection specific env variables. These are merged
with the process environment strings and passed to scripts.
- To set an env variable, use 'echo setenv name value' in the config
or push from the server. This will set "OPENVPN_name=value" in
the connections's env set. Note that "name" is mangled as
"OPENVPN_name" to avoid servers overwriting sensitive variables
such as PATH. Names are set in the order received and same name
overwrites any previously set value.
- Environment variable names are allowed to contain only alpha numeric
characters and underscore as in openvpn.exe. But, unlike openvpn.exe,
invalid names are ignored, not sanitized.
v2 changes (Dec 16, 2017):
- If value is missing, the directive is interpreted as a delete command
and the env var with matching name in the connection's env set is removed.
- Windows needs env block to be ordered:
While merging connection specific env vars with process env block, order
the entries 'alphabetically' (locale independent, case insensitive
unicode ordinal order). In case of duplicates, the value in connection
env set replaces the one in process env.
Signed-off-by: Selva Nair <selva.nair@gmail.com>
Option ediitng dialogs are in two tabs: General and Advanced.
Proxy related options are left in the proxy tab. Options
config_dir, config_ext, log_dir, script timeouts and
service-only flag are in the Advanced tab. All other more commonly
used flags and options are in the General tab.
- As options are editable, save values in registry only when they differ
from the default values. This leaves the registry clean and makes changing
options and their defaults during updates easier.
- Entries for config_dir and log_dir must be absolute paths.
Environemental variables such as %PROFILEDIR% may be used
to construct these.
- Empty config_dir, config_ext and log_dir entries are silently
ignored (i.e., the current values are left unchanged).
- Store all numeric and boolean parameters in registry as DWORD instead of
strings.
- On startup, the default parameters are loaded, then the registry is read
and finally command-line parameters parsedi.
- Out of range script timeout values in registry truncated with a
warning instead of fatal error. This allows the user to access the
settings dialog and make corrections.
- Save proxy and language settings under the same
HKCU\Software\OpenVPN-GUI key as other options instead of under Nilings.
- Save the current version of the GUI in regsitry so that updates
can be detected and any needed registry cleanup done.
- If no version info is present in the registry any values in OpenVPN-GUI
key in HKCU are deleted for a clean start as this is the first version
to save registry values in HKCU. Language and proxy data if present
under Nilings is migrated.
Note: new controls in the General tab and newly added Advanced tab dialog
are copied to all language files from the English version. These need to
be translated.
Signed-off-by: Selva Nair <selva.nair@gmail.com>
Frank Fesevur