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Re: [Openvpn-users] using tls-remote to verify server


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] using tls-remote to verify server
  • From: Nik <openvpn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:36:35 +1000

James Yonan wrote:
I came across this as well. Something (openvpn, openssl, etc) changes spaces in the X509 name into underscores for the purposes of this comparison.


To prevent scripting attacks, OpenVPN does string remapping on all strings
which can potentially be saved in the environment or passed to scripts:

http://openvpn.net/man.html#lbAR

There you go: I always said there was a good reason for this. :o)

Cheers!
Nik.

PS Thank you James for the explanation!

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