OpenVPN / OpenVPN/openvpn

Remove all privileged operations from Windows openvpn.exe

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Since Oct 26, 2025.

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Description

We have a lot of duplicated functionality with the interactive service. At this point we should remove all of that from openvpn.exe and force usage of the interactive service to remove this duplication.

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