From: Gert Doering Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 19:07:05 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Add note about file permissions and --crl-verify to manpage. X-Git-Tag: v2.4_alpha1~310 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d55be0fb8091ff03af1319a27f68401d31ce8571;p=thirdparty%2Fopenvpn.git 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 --- diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index 587b7697a..b09f7d7c6 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -5068,6 +5068,11 @@ 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: .\"*********************************************************