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Improve documentation in --script-security section of the man-page

PATCH In review [email protected]... 2 participants 2 messages Jun 2, 2015

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PATCH 1/1 Improve documentation in --script-security section of the man-page

From: Samuli Seppänen <[email protected]...>

Trac: #395

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 doc/openvpn.8 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
doc/openvpn.8 +5 -0
index df16a7f..3eb2493 100644
@@ -2007,6 +2007,11 @@ or
 As of OpenVPN v2.3, this flag is no longer accepted.  In most *nix environments the execve()
 approach has been used without any issues.
 
+Some directives such as \-\-up allow options to be passed to the external
+script. In these cases make sure the script name does not contain any spaces or
+the configuration parser will choke because it can't determine where the script
+name ends and script options start.
+
 To run scripts in Windows in earlier OpenVPN
 versions you needed to either add a full path to the script interpreter which can parse the
 script or use the
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ACK. Your patch has been applied to the master and release/2.3 branch.

commit 001384e2952b54089e889edbda3196283b21641d (master) commit 9f1d4545049bb643bf214498709e2af001bbe106 (release/2.3)

Author: Samuli Seppänen
Date:   Tue Jun 2 10:59:42 2015 +0300
     Improve documentation in --script-security section of the man-page

     Signed-off-by: Samuli Seppänen <[email protected]...>
     Acked-by: Gert Doering <[email protected]...>
     Message-Id: <[email protected]...>
     URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9777
     Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <[email protected]...>

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kind regards,

Gert Doering