Omada VPN without Admin rights?
Omada VPN without Admin rights?
After having some problems with the OpenVPN Connect and GUI clients (Cannot connect due to the older OpenVPN version in Omada and split tunneling not working) I noticed the Omada VPN client, Download voor ER707-M2 | TP-Link Nederland. I don't know if this client is just released or if it has been around for a while but it seems to be working without problems.
We would like to move our cliënts to this software but it requires admin rights to run. Since not all of our cliënts have local admin rights, is it possible to run the VPN client without admin rights?
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Hi @Niels-NL
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Niels-NL wrote
Sorry for the late reply. But this seems to disable the UAC prompt, not remove the need for local admin rights. If the app needs local admin rights it makes it unsuitable for managed environments where clients don't have local admin rights.
Since I tried this on a test computer at that time, I bypassed this prompt. I think that might fix the issue you have.
If, like you said, it requires the local admin authorization, then we cannot bypass the Windows since we need to modify the settings.
I don't think that we can make a difference and this falls back to the root cause that modifying networking settings requires admin authorization.
You should try it at least.
Update:
Forgot to say, it was asking for the password of the admin before I made a change to this. After this, it never asks and launches it instantly.
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Hi,
Same issue as Niels. Your software is impossible to use with our company. Users can't have admin rights and this software needs admin rights to be run. We don't speak about installation. I don't understand your answer to Niels. As admin we can't spend our time to bypass UAC using tricks to run software. As example no one modify the registry to run word or excel after installation. If some parameters modifications needs admin rights so the UAC windows must pop at this moment not at the launching.
Maybe a correction in the next version will be really useful for anyone.
Best regards
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Hi @Ninaume
Ninaume wrote
Hi,
Same issue as Niels. Your software is impossible to use with our company. Users can't have admin rights and this software needs admin rights to be run. We don't speak about installation. I don't understand your answer to Niels. As admin we can't spend our time to bypass UAC using tricks to run software. As example no one modify the registry to run word or excel after installation. If some parameters modifications needs admin rights so the UAC windows must pop at this moment not at the launching.
Maybe a correction in the next version will be really useful for anyone.
Best regards
You have been explained the reason why and offered a temp workaround here but you rejected my suggestion. So, you can read the following paragraph and wait for it. Or you can use the dedicated software to connect such as WireGuard, and OpenVPN.
And note, that if there is no resolution from the dev to bypass it, there will not be an update to fix it. I am informing you that this enters the evaluation phase. It is not a guarantee from me.
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