From 755e12fddf32e6e2bbfce0157d9f17e8f1ff5eb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gert Doering Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 21:07:05 +0200 Subject: Add note about file permissions and --crl-verify to manpage. Trac #522 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering Acked-by: Steffan Karger Message-Id: <1430593625-855-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9634 (cherry picked from commit d55be0fb8091ff03af1319a27f68401d31ce8571) --- doc/openvpn.8 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index fb0596c..b955a42 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -5032,6 +5032,11 @@ 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: .\"********************************************************* -- cgit