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* doc/management-notes.txt: fix typoJoachim Schipper2012-11-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Joachim Schipper <joachim.schipper@fox-it.com> Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Message-Id: 1CED409804E2164C8104F9E623B08B901323D0B184@FOXDFT02.FOX.local URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7141 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 5dfdb7c010c5a32a0ec51d9266748c641cd24dba)
* Remove the support for using system() when executing external programs or ↵David Sommerseth2012-10-311-16/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | scripts This patch removes the support for the system() call, and enforces the usage of execve() on the *nix platform and CreateProcessW() on Windows. This is to enhance the overall security when calling external scripts. Using system() is prone to shell expansions, which may lead to security breaches. Which is also why the execve() approach has been the default since commit a82813527551f0e79c6d6ed5a9c1162e3c171bcf which re-introduced the system() in Nov. 2008. After having asked on the mailing list and checked around on the IRC channels, the genereal consensus is that very few uses system() these days. The only annoyance I've been made aware of is that this will now require adding a full path to the script interpreter together with the script, and not just put in the script name alone. But to just use the script name in Windows, you had to configure --script-security with the 'system' flag earlier too. So my conclusion is that it's better to add a full path to the script interpreter in Windows and raise the overal security with OpenVPN, than to continue to have a possible potentially risky OpenVPN configuration just to make life "easier" for Windows script users. Removal of the system() call, also solves a nasty bug related to the usage of putenv() on the *nix platforms. For more information please see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7090 https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/228 Trac-ticket: 228 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Message-Id: <1351539352-17371-1-git-send-email-dazo@users.sourceforge.net> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7114 (cherry picked from commit 0563473601abfbf2142bfa0ca5b863c5aa7953a2)
* Document man agent-external-keyArne Schwabe2012-10-152-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | Adapt commit message from cf69617bbea45a15423c4188daa9386debcbe1ec for man page and management documentation. Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> Acked-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> Message-Id: 1349082318-985-1-git-send-email-arne@rfc2549.org URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7081 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> (cherry picked from commit 75b6f4bd84302d225a301f4ed87e2bb27908b972)
* Add --compat-names optionHeiko Hund2012-09-121-0/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With this option, users can basically undo the changes of the UTF-8 support commit 5e86fd93779482b90a191f929edebe414cd78a4f. It's here for short term compatibility and should be removed again as soon as possible. When OpenSSL is used, the subject strings will be in the proprietary format again. Generally username, X.509 CN, and X.509 subject will again be subject to '_' replacemant, unless the "no-remapping" flag is also specified. That flag ensures compatibility with setups using the --no-name-remapping option, that has been removed in 2.3. [v2: More comments related to compat_flags() added by DS plus using COMPAT_FLAG_QUERY expclit] [v3: Improved the man page entry for --compat-names, after suggestions from Bernhard R. Link] Signed-off-by: Heiko Hund <heiko.hund@sophos.com> Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Acked-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> Message-Id: 1347377664-15462-1-git-send-email-dazo@users.sourceforge.net URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7053
* Document that keep alive will double the second value in server mode and ↵Arne Schwabe2012-09-111-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | give a short explanation why the value is chosen. Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Message-Id: 1346674564-17260-1-git-send-email-arne@rfc2549.org URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7041 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
* Document --management-client and --management-signal a bit betterArne Schwabe2012-09-021-3/+7
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Message-Id: 1344447102-22271-1-git-send-email-arne@rfc2549.org URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/6962 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
* Document the inlining of files in openvpn and document key-directionArne Schwabe2012-09-021-0/+39
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch documents the usage of inline files in OpenVPN. Hackish ways of inline files are deliberately left out. For tls-auth and secret the key-direction option is right way of specifying the direction and not by using two tls-auth/secret lines where the first sets the direction and has a dummy file name and the second sets the inline file data but does not reset the direction parameter. Also pkcs12 [[INLINE]] base64encoded_data works but is a quirk of how the config parser works Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Message-Id: 1345756860-2044-1-git-send-email-arne@rfc2549.org URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/7006 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
* add option --management-query-proxyHeiko Hund2012-07-192-0/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make openvpn query for proxy information through the management interface. This allows GUIs to provide (automatically detected) proxy information on a per connection basis. This new option supersedes the undocumented --http-proxy-fallback option and puts the responsibilty for HTTP proxy fallback handling to the GUI caring for such. Signed-off-by: Heiko Hund <heiko.hund@sophos.com> Reviewed-by: James Yonan <james@openvpn.net> Message-Id: 1342009010-9735-1-git-send-email-heiko.hund@sophos.com URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/6841 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <dazo@users.sourceforge.net>
* build: integrate plugins build into core buildAlon Bar-Lev2012-06-262-1/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As disucssed[1], keep plugins in repository. 1, Proper automake/libtool build. 2. Move example plugins to samples/sample-plugins. 3. Plugins are installed at LIBDIR/openvpn/plugins. [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/6436 Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> Message-Id: 1337035323-27465-1-git-send-email-alon.barlev@gmail.com URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/6591 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
* remove the --auto-proxy option from openvpnHeiko Hund2012-06-131-12/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | During discussion on FOSDEM 2012 it was decided that proxy auto detection is best done in the GUI as it's highly platform specific and shouldn't be handled in openvpn itself for every supported platform in openvpn itself. This removes --auto-proxy from openvpn. Signed-off-by: Heiko Hund <heiko.hund@sophos.com> Acked-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> Message-Id: 1328446029-30523-1-git-send-email-heiko.hund@sophos.com URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/5333 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
* Explain that route-nopull also causes the client to ignore dhcp options.Arne Schwabe2012-06-071-1/+2
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> Acked-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> Message-Id: 1338642223-20324-5-git-send-email-arne@rfc2549.org URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/6649 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
* Clarified the docs and help screen about what a 'cmd' isJonathan K. Bullard2012-05-021-48/+107
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This also changes the descriptions of several options to note that they accept a "command"; change the description of --client-connect and --client-disconnect indicate that the temporary file's path is passed as the last argument to the command, not the first argument; and Adds a description of --route-pre-down to the descriptions of the other --route options. [DS: This patch is based on parts of the options.c.diff and the complete openvpn.8.diff patch sent to the mailing list - where these docs changes are merged together into this patch] Signed-off-by: Jonathan K. Bullard <jkbullard@gmail.com> Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Message-Id: CAEsd45RkyJw6yUk1Jwkip70HkCjKYoU+V=do3N7SH7JOaHBZdw@mail.gmail.com URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/6194 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
* Added a configuration option to enable prediction resistance in the PolarSSL ↵Adriaan de Jong2012-04-271-0/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | random number generator. Signed-off-by: Eelse-jan Stutvoet <stutvoet@fox-it.com> Signed-off-by: Adriaan de Jong <dejong@fox-it.com> Acked-by: James Yonan <james@openvpn.net> Message-Id: 1333351687-3732-2-git-send-email-dejong@fox-it.com URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/6213 Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> Notes: This patch was ACKed by James Yonan in an IRC meeting March 29, 2012. Currently, the meeting minutes have not been made public. (David Sommerseth, Fri Apr 27 21:36:04 UTC 2012)
* build: proper crypto detection and usageAlon Bar-Lev2012-03-221-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Adriaan de Jong <dejong@fox-it.com> Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
* build: proper lzo detection and usageAlon Bar-Lev2012-03-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Adriaan de Jong <dejong@fox-it.com> Acked-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
* build: standard directory layoutAlon Bar-Lev2012-03-2219-0/+9172
Suitable for mature project. root - administrative stuff doc - documents src - sources tests - tests distro - distro specific files sample - samples SIDE EFFECT: many changes to rpm spec. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Adriaan de Jong <dejong@fox-it.com> Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
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