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| author | james <james@e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5> | 2008-11-04 21:42:56 +0000 |
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| committer | james <james@e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5> | 2008-11-04 21:42:56 +0000 |
| commit | 373faab1faf0a7c90cbe08c0223dcae5d34be269 (patch) | |
| tree | 435e343b49d2169848e36043305894e869e24270 /openvpn.8 | |
| parent | Fixed revoke-full to deal with issue arising from addition (diff) | |
| download | openvpn-373faab1faf0a7c90cbe08c0223dcae5d34be269.tar.xz | |
Added config file option "setenv FORWARD_COMPATIBLE 1" to relax
config file syntax checking to allow directives for future OpenVPN
versions to be ignored.
git-svn-id: http://svn.openvpn.net/projects/openvpn/branches/BETA21/openvpn@3476 e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5
Diffstat (limited to 'openvpn.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | openvpn.8 | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" LP paragraph .\" IP indented paragraph .\" TP hanging label -.TH openvpn 8 "3 August 2005" +.TH openvpn 8 "4 November 2008" .\"********************************************************* .SH NAME openvpn \- secure IP tunnel daemon. @@ -2010,6 +2010,19 @@ Set a custom environmental variable to pass to script. .\"********************************************************* .TP +.B --setenv FORWARD_COMPATIBLE 1 +Relax config file syntax checking so that unknown directives +will trigger a warning but not a fatal error, +on the assumption that a given unknown directive might be valid +in future OpenVPN versions. + +This option should be used with caution, as there are good security +reasons for having OpenVPN fail if it detects problems in a +config file. Having said that, there are valid reasons for wanting +new software features to gracefully degrade when encountered by +older software versions. +.\"********************************************************* +.TP .B --setenv-safe name value Set a custom environmental variable .B OPENVPN_name=value |