auth-pass from file

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. set auth-pass to include a file name with the user and password
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
With other versions of openvpn, you can use this configuration, and it will 
allow this. When I do 
this with version 10, I get this message: 'Auth' password cannot be read from a 
file. 

I am wondering if this is a permission issue, or this version will not read the 
file for user / 
password information. 

What version of Tunnelblick are you using? On what version of OS X? PPC or 
Intel?

I am running Tiger 10.4.11 Tunnelblick 3.0b10

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by symon.fe...@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2009 at 3:14

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Google's first hit for "'Auth' password cannot be read from a file" is
http://openvpn.net/archive/openvpn-users/2005-01/msg00349.html

Please read it. It explains why reading a password from a file is considered 
bad, and
why OpenVPN doesn't allow it by default. (The "OpenVPN GUI" is sort of a Windows
equivalent of Tunnelblick.)

I believe that Tunnelblick's copy of OpenVPN is built with the defaults; so it
doesn't allow it either. If that's true, to avoid it you would have to build a
version of OpenVPN that allows it and insert that inside the Tunnelblick
application's Resources folder. Not for the fainthearted!

Original comment by jkbull...@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2009 at 3:37

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Original comment by jkbull...@gmail.com on 21 Jul 2009 at 12:04

• Changed state: WontFix