Re: updated ovpn-crl-updater script was not shipped in CU186. Needs to be added to CU187

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

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Hello,

I have just pushed a rebuild of the last update. So people who upgrade from now on should get the correct script.

Would you like to communicate this with the people (potentially) affected?

Best,
-Michael

> On 8 Jul 2024, at 16:53, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 08/07/2024 17:38, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> How many users are we talking about?
> 
> I don't know. The CRL has a lifetime of one month from what Erik has mentioned on the forum. I found that it had expired on my production system but I tend to only use it when I am visiting family/friends so hadn't noticed.
> 
> In the forum I think there have been 5 or 6 people who have flagged up a problem or that red the post and then fed back that they had made the change to the ovpn-crl-updater script and that it had worked.
> 
> Since that original number there have been no more mentions.
>> I would like to close the update now anyways and release it into testing this week. That being said, we are probably looking at a release in the last week of July or later…
> I think we should do that anyway.
>> We could also patch the previous update and release a new updater.
> That would deal with anyone doing an update. That might be good to do.
> 
> If I understand correctly any change made won't end up in the released iso/image but any new install that immediately created an OpenVPN connection would then have a month before it needed to be updated and CU187 would then be out.
> 
> Regards,
> Adolf.
>> Best,
>> -Michael
>>> On 4 Jul 2024, at 15:29, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> 
>>> I have been asked in a private forum message (not sure why they made it private), about whether CU187 should be made an emergency update just for the ovpn-crl-updater due to the numbers of people who might lose their OpenVPN connections if the crl cannot be updated.
>>> 
>>> I pointed out that CU187 was close to being released for Testing and that changing everything would probably create more issues and chaos and delay CU187 which has quite a few updates related to CVE fixes.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I thought I would forward the request to see what you think the best approach would be.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Adolf.
>>> 
>>> On 04/07/2024 15:10, Adolf Belka wrote:
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> 
>>>> The ovpn-crl-updater script was updated to take account of the modified location for the ovpn.cnf file but the script was missed of the list of files to be shipped with CU186.
>>>> 
>>>> The file needs to be included into the CU187 list to be shipped.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Adolf.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Sent from my laptop
>>>