Wireguard for Windows - local administrator necessary?

Jason A. Donenfeld Jason at zx2c4.com
Wed Nov 27 13:29:06 CET 2019


On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 10:07 AM Chris Bennett <chris at ceegeebee.com> wrote:
> However I've found the logged in user needs local Administrator access to activate and de-activate a tunnel.  Is there any way around this?  Is it in the roadmap to remove this requirement?

No intention of reducing the security of the system, no. WireGuard
requires administrator access because redirecting an entire machine's
network traffic is certainly an administrator's task.


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