From: Der PCFreak <mailinglists@pcfreak.de>
To: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: Using WireGuard on Windows as non-admin - proper solution?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:03:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cff0d2ca-3f7c-fc27-f8ad-2b3e68223ed9@pcfreak.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9p6FoUsFou0LkeUZt4Ba1K4ycuA6f8X4c6Kt8-jzkAH7A@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
a long time ago (wow 7 years now) OpenVPN was facing the same problem
and I had to come up with a solution at this time which I wrote down here:
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Nonprivileged?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=39af44f70f734e1518810bfa4f763b5614b5d0cd-1605268198-0-AdWjPrQmfW_DxRRmKq1ebg6_bp-ISgZpLzFFC-FpzH9anyH3NEa1vtRcZAv7sQ_qLE-1pXhvVutaGK0e_jcPKwRb51xZAJrDAX58ap_o39EO-mLClM-PiYlPBmvxS68mJASvxyInfI5IuXaPFl4Rm2VSYNWjiKCIxo-qP2GCZ5h74Z-qxkoGNg96mFsUabWVqrbCaw0GGPahl6iWDZdSETK3_UD_akuSpTVY58AauKyaaT3cGq-A9r-QsLYkJ9Q9fY_gvt03AgobKFi4_E4GMn9Imsc5VYNesNb6JwHJgvTtFP9C_dzN4OD3BZV_egUMVQ
especially the part "New and working solution for Windows 7 (and above)"
- Sorry, the images are gone since Dropbox killed public folders but I
still have them
somewhere lying arround.
I used Scheduled Tasks at logon of any user that automatically created
another !privileged! scheduled task for the nonprivileged user and
started OpenVPN.
It was a bit of a hack but it worked until first SecurePoint, then
Sophos and finally OpenVPN.net came up with a client that communicated
with a service and
did no longer need administrative privileges to bring up a connection.
I think you could reproduce the same with Wireguard using my old scripts
posted above etc.
Not very nice but as always, time will tell.
Regards
Peter
On 13.11.2020 03:16, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Viktor,
>
> I am actually interested in solving this. I took an initial stab at it
> here, but I'm not super comfortable with the implementation or the
> security implications:
> https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-windows/commit/?h=jd/unprivd-knob
>
> Aside from doing this from within our existing UI, the general
> solution using the service-based building blocks is to simply allow
> users to start and stop services that begin with "WireGuardTunnel$".
> So the flow is something like:
>
> 1. wireguard /installtunnelservice path\to\sometunnel.conf.
> 2. Change the ACLs on WireGuardTunnel$sometunnel to fit your user.
> 3. Have the user use `net start` and `net stop`, or similar, to
> control whether the service is up or down.
>
> That's not super pretty, but it should work, and it is automatable.
> Meanwhile, I'll keep thinking about various ways to do this in a more
> "first-party" way.
>
> Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-13 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 15:18 vh217
2020-11-13 2:16 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-13 12:03 ` Der PCFreak [this message]
2020-11-15 15:28 ` Patrik Holmqvist
2020-11-19 16:56 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-20 11:49 ` Patrik Holmqvist
2020-11-20 12:52 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-20 13:10 ` Patrick Fogarty
2020-11-20 13:14 ` Patrik Holmqvist
2020-11-17 10:18 ` Viktor H
2020-11-26 7:09 ` Chris Bennett
2020-11-21 10:05 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-22 12:55 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-23 14:57 ` Fatih USTA
2020-11-24 23:42 ` Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
2020-11-25 1:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-25 7:49 ` Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
2020-11-25 10:30 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-25 11:45 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-25 14:08 ` Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
[not found] ` <8bf9e364f87bd0018dabca03dcc8c19b@mail.gmail.com>
2020-11-25 20:10 ` Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
2020-11-25 21:42 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-26 8:53 ` Adrian Larsen
2020-11-28 14:28 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-29 9:30 ` Adrian Larsen
2020-11-29 10:52 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-29 12:09 ` Phillip McMahon
2020-11-29 12:50 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-29 13:40 ` Phillip McMahon
2020-11-29 17:52 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-29 19:44 ` Phillip McMahon
2020-11-29 20:59 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-11-30 18:34 ` Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
2022-04-22 20:21 ` zer0flash
2020-11-30 12:47 ` Probable Heresy ;-) Peter Whisker
2020-12-02 13:40 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-01-03 11:08 ` Christopher Ng
2020-11-25 12:40 ` AW: Using WireGuard on Windows as non-admin - proper solution? Joachim Lindenberg
2020-11-25 13:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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