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authorSamuli Seppänen <samuli@openvpn.net>2015-06-02 10:59:42 +0300
committerGert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>2015-06-02 10:05:51 +0200
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Improve documentation in --script-security section of the man-page
Trac: #395 Signed-off-by: Samuli Seppänen <samuli@openvpn.net> Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Message-Id: <1433231982-24945-1-git-send-email-samuli@openvpn.net> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9777 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> (cherry picked from commit 001384e2952b54089e889edbda3196283b21641d)
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@@ -1997,6 +1997,11 @@ or
As of OpenVPN v2.3, this flag is no longer accepted. In most *nix environments the execve()
approach has been used without any issues.
+Some directives such as \-\-up allow options to be passed to the external
+script. In these cases make sure the script name does not contain any spaces or
+the configuration parser will choke because it can't determine where the script
+name ends and script options start.
+
To run scripts in Windows in earlier OpenVPN
versions you needed to either add a full path to the script interpreter which can parse the
script or use the