Thank you Alexander, for checking and building the patch.

Michael, thank you for fixing it so rapidly.

And, I do apologize. I ran into this issue while testing several months
ago and apparently did not report it.

Rod

On 01/07/2013 05:37 AM, Michael Tremer wrote:
> 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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