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authorGert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>2015-05-02 21:07:05 +0200
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Add note about file permissions and --crl-verify to manpage.
Trac #522 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Acked-by: Steffan Karger <steffan.karger@fox-it.com> Message-Id: <1430593625-855-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9634
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@@ -5068,6 +5068,11 @@ is a directory containing files named as revoked serial numbers
requests a connection, where the client certificate serial number
(decimal string) is the name of a file present in the directory,
it will be rejected.
+
+Note: As the crl file (or directory) is read every time a peer connects,
+if you are dropping root privileges with
+.B --user,
+make sure that this user has sufficient privileges to read the file.
.\"*********************************************************
.SS SSL Library information:
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