From ce8271f5d435be963c79945f8d7eb6ea2e4369fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alon Bar-Lev Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 01:42:03 +0300 Subject: build: integrate plugins build into core build 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 Acked-by: David Sommerseth 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 --- src/plugins/down-root/README.down-root | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/plugins/down-root/README.down-root (limited to 'src/plugins/down-root/README.down-root') diff --git a/src/plugins/down-root/README.down-root b/src/plugins/down-root/README.down-root new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d337ffe --- /dev/null +++ b/src/plugins/down-root/README.down-root @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +down-root -- an OpenVPN Plugin Module + +SYNOPSIS + +The down-root module allows an OpenVPN configuration to +call a down script with root privileges, even when privileges +have been dropped using --user/--group/--chroot. + +This module uses a split privilege execution model which will +fork() before OpenVPN drops root privileges, at the point where +the --up script is usually called. The module will then remain +in a wait state until it receives a message from OpenVPN via +pipe to execute the down script. Thus, the down script will be +run in the same execution environment as the up script. + +BUILD + +Build this module with the "make" command. The plugin +module will be named openvpn-down-root.so + +USAGE + +To use this module, add to your OpenVPN config file: + + plugin openvpn-down-root.so "command ..." + +CAVEATS + +This module will only work on *nix systems, not Windows. -- cgit