Re: Possible bug in OpenVPN, Core 65

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Thanks guys.

I merged the patch and it will ship with IPFire 2.13.

Best,
-Michael

On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 08:36 +0100, Alexander Marx wrote:
> Hi
> i can fully acknoledge this.
> Tried to reproduce your error and found the same problems.
> i will provide a patch for this.
> 
> 
> 
> Alexander Marx
> 
> 
> Fachinformatiker Systemintegration
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 07.01.2013 06:44, schrieb R. W. Rodolico:
> 
> > See http://forum.ipfire.org/index.php/topic,7365.0.html for information.
> > 
> > Turns out the CCD does not work if the user has embedded spaces in the
> > CN (field labeled "User's full name or system hostname:" on Road Warrior
> > creation screen). I don't remember exactly, but I believe OpenSSL or
> > OpenVPN itself converts spaces to underscores. You can test this by
> > creating a user, embedding spaces, and then on the server
> > cat /var/log/ovpnserver.log
> > 
> > You will note the Common Name has spaces converted to underscores.
> > 
> > The solution is to write the ccd file with underscores, ie
> > $filename =~ s/ /_/gi;
> > 
> > If someone will point me to the script that creates that, I will be
> > happy to patch and test, then send you the diff.
> > 
> > Rod
> > 
> > NOTE: I have spent a little time looking at this and solving it for an
> > existing installation, but I intend to pull an old router out and
> > reconfigure it for a controlled test, unless someone else can verify my
> > findings independently.
> > 
> > Rod
> > 
> > 
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