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Run as admin still required in 2.4 despite docs? #129
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@RoxKilly : "Run as admin" is not required. That said, I have no clue why "Run this program as an administrator" is grayed out for you. If you're an admin, you should be able to reset the flag. Very recently we had a discussion regarding the "Run as admin" flag for OpenVPN GUI. The thing is that one can set the flag from two places:
The shortcut flag probably gets erased when OpenVPN is upgraded, but the executable flag does not. I could not find the original discussion - @selvanair : any idea where it is? |
@RoxKilly: To add to what mattock wrote, the installer does not set the run as admin flag on the executable or shortcut. However, if you had a previous installation where you had set the executable to run as admin, it could survive after a new install. For a discussion of this issue see https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/811 To remove the flag you have two options: Going forward do not set either the shortcut or exec to run as admin. EDIT: Option (ii) may not work, I had forgotten the details. |
@selvanair @mattock thanks for your help. It is useful to know that the flag was not set by OpenVPN. The admin flag was set on the exe, not the shortcut. Perhaps I had set it when I first started using OpenVPN a couple of years back I don't remember. Using "Change settings for all users" to uncheck "run as admin" made no difference. The program still prompted for admin priviledges, and in exe properties >> compatibility, the "Run as admin" checkbox was still checked and greyed out (so cannot be unchecked). To get things to work, I needed to:
Remember to change the user account back to standard user. Feel free to close the issue. |
The docs mention that as of OpenVPN 2.4 (GUI 11.4.0.0), the GUI no longer needs to be run as administrator so long as the
OpenVPN Interactive Service
is running.However, I am unable to test this because whenever I run
C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin\openvpn-gui.exe
, it asks permission to run as admin as it did for previous versions.I've tried to open the EXE file properties and change this requirement, but the box "Run as admin" is checked and read-only, even when I edit properties from an Admin account (see the last checkbox in the attached image)
.
I'm using Windows 7 x64, and I upgraded in-place from 2.3.12 (GUI 10)
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