can open VPN on PIA be run without admin rights and kill all connections other thanit

[Onceler]

I want to use OpenVPN on someone's laptop that does not have admin rights. The PIA client requires that you have admin rights which is fine for setting things up but I want it to be able to run under a non admin account and start with windows and make sure all the traffic goes through it.
Thanks

 

[John Connor]

I don't think it can be done. OpenVPN requires a TAP driver to be installed. Therefore you need an Admin account.

 

[Elixer]

About the only way to do what the OP wants is have a linux boot CD/pen drive and have the VPN setup that way, or have that machine go to another machine where you do have admin access on, or, you can even have a router that has VPN support, and do it that way.
Otherwise, you do need an admin account on the local machine to be able to use a VPN as John said.

 

[TheRyuu]

No you won't be able to do it with OpenVPN as some of the required commands that it has to run to set up the connection need admin privileges in Windows.

I believe you can set up a L2TP/IPSec tunnel without admin rights and without even having to install anything.

 

[1sikbITCH]

About the only way to do what the OP wants is have a linux boot CD/pen drive and have the VPN setup that way, or have that machine go to another machine where you do have admin access on, or, you can even have a router that has VPN support, and do it that way.
Otherwise, you do need an admin account on the local machine to be able to use a VPN as John said.

Yes this was my immediate thought too; put a portable operating system on a flash drive and configure the VPN on that. Rinse, reboot.