From: Samuli Seppänen Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 07:59:42 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Improve documentation in --script-security section of the man-page X-Git-Tag: v2.4_alpha1~284 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=001384e2952b54089e889edbda3196283b21641d;p=thirdparty%2Fopenvpn.git Improve documentation in --script-security section of the man-page Trac: #395 Signed-off-by: Samuli Seppänen Acked-by: Gert Doering Message-Id: <1433231982-24945-1-git-send-email-samuli@openvpn.net> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9777 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering --- diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index df16a7f4b..3eb2493a8 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -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