From: Gert Doering Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 07:09:54 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Document --daemon changes and consequences (--askpass, --auth-nocache). X-Git-Tag: v2.4_alpha1~273 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6ec7fbe96f4e200b8962ef6bb572bbb2228133e;p=thirdparty%2Fopenvpn.git Document --daemon changes and consequences (--askpass, --auth-nocache). Trac #574, #576 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering Acked-by: Steffan Karger Message-Id: <1436857794-29419-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9923 --- diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index 3eb2493a8..0692a8017 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -2208,6 +2208,22 @@ openvpn command for a fairly reliable indication of whether the command has correctly initialized and entered the packet forwarding event loop. In OpenVPN, the vast majority of errors which occur after initialization are non-fatal. + +Note: as soon as OpenVPN has daemonized, it can not ask for usernames, +passwords, or key pass phrases anymore. This has certain consequences, +namely that using a password-protected private key will fail unless the +.B \-\-askpass +option is used to tell OpenVPN to ask for the pass phrase (this +requirement is new in 2.3.7, and is a consequence of calling daemon() +before initializing the crypto layer). + +Further, using +.B \-\-daemon +together with +.B \-\-auth-user-pass +(entered on console) and +.B \-\-auth-nocache +will fail as soon as key renegotiation (and reauthentication) occurs. .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-syslog [progname]