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From: "R. W. Rodolico" <rodo@dailydata.net>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Possible Bug in OVPN
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:23:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57BD2F56.4010108@dailydata.net> (raw)

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Problem exists in 103 (and I'm not sure how much further back), but I
just noticed it.

When creating the client package, the .ovpn file has the following line:
verify-x509-name my.server.name name
(my.server.name is actually the server's name). The error message is:

Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in
rodolico-TO-IPFire.ovpn:13: verify-x509-name (2.2.1)

This line is not recognized by OpenVPN v2.2.1, which is on my Debian
Wheezy workstation. It appears to also be a problem with tunnelblick
(see
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tunnelblick-discuss/R6gY0C-CgfY). This
command appeared in OpenVPN v2.3, so anyone using versions prior to that
will not be able to use the configuration file.

The syntax before used the deprecated tls-remote, ie

tls-remote my.server.name

Which works on Windows (OpenVPN GUI), Linux (OpenVPN) and OSX (tunnelblick).

Let me know if you want me to file a bug report. However, for release
104, I'd recommend either leaving the verify-x509-name out, or using the
old (deprecated) tls-remote (which still works under v2.3, from what
I've seen, though it is deprecated as per
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Openvpn23ManPage)

However, if you just want it documented (it is a deprecated flag which
will be fully removed in 2.4), let me know and I'll put it in the wiki.

Rod

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-08-24  5:23 UTC|newest]

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2016-08-24  5:23 R. W. Rodolico [this message]
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