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author | Karl O. Pinc <kop@mofo.meme.com> | 2010-03-02 21:41:06 +0100 |
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committer | David Sommerseth <dazo@users.sourceforge.net> | 2010-10-21 21:11:46 +0200 |
commit | d04b8582a8d9cda4e886019c81f24712663e97b4 (patch) | |
tree | 7a45783facacd361d2c0852592678711e2e3dbf9 /openvpn.8 | |
parent | enhance tls-verify possibility (diff) | |
download | openvpn-d04b8582a8d9cda4e886019c81f24712663e97b4.tar.xz |
Several updates to openvpn.8 (man page updates)
This is a collection of 4 patches sent to the -devel mailing list:
* [PATCH] Frob the openvpn(8) man page tls-verify section to clarify
* [PATCH] More improvments to openvpn(8) --tls-verify
* [PATCH] Yet another tweak of openvpn(8) --tls-verify
* [PATCH] Final frobbing of openvpn(8) --tls-verify
Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <dazo@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: David Sommerseth <dazo@users.sourceforge.net>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r-- | openvpn.8 | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -4260,11 +4260,23 @@ test). .B cmd should return 0 to allow the TLS handshake to proceed, or 1 to fail. + +Note that +.B cmd +is a command line and as such may (if enclosed in quotes) contain +whitespace separated arguments. The first word of +.B cmd +is the shell command to execute and the remaining words are its +arguments. +When .B cmd -is executed as +is executed two arguments are appended, as follows: .B cmd certificate_depth X509_NAME_oneline +These arguments are, respectively, the current certificate depth and +the X509 common name (cn) of the peer. + This feature is useful if the peer you want to trust has a certificate which was signed by a certificate authority who also signed many other certificates, where you don't necessarily want to trust all of them, @@ -4278,14 +4290,6 @@ in the OpenVPN distribution. See the "Environmental Variables" section below for additional parameters passed as environmental variables. - -Note that -.B cmd -can be a shell command with multiple arguments, in which -case all OpenVPN-generated arguments will be appended -to -.B cmd -to build a command line which will be passed to the script. .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-tls-export-cert directory |