My friend said he wont make a github accoint bc git is too complicated and ftp uploading straight to the server is easier. Pic unrelated, i just wanted to share this abomination too.

"agrs" instead of "args"?

@JoshBent thats... the least of my concerns

Well it is Java 🤣

@Condor
How it's not easier? For simple tcp forward to one machine and one service openvpn it's overkill, requires extra service, client cert, etc,extra firewall rules.
I give you it's less secure by default since the connection will always trusted, but I don't allow ordinary users to tunnel or port forward anyway.

And most importantly, forgot that one, doesn't require administrative permissions to install the client.
Still baffled why you assume he's incompetent. Both have its use cases, not going to install a openvpn service on a db server to interact with one service only. It's just stupid.

@Condor
Yeah, I maintain both services, tend to use openvpn for untrusted users.
Port forwarding is less obscure than a openvpn.conf file 😄

But they even make software with a GUI for people like that 🤔 which honestly is not as easy as the 3 or 4 lines you need in a terminal for git 😳