Hi,
I'm currently testing some cases for password input and how passwords
could look like. I use the management interface to do so.
Two cases went wrong:
1. Input a password with german umlaute, e.g.
password "Private Key" "äöüß"
2. Input empty password
password "Private Key" ""
3. Input "normal" password works as expected.
In both cases OpenVPN is in the "Connecting" state, but nothing else
happens. Management Interface is otherwise still working as expected.
>INFO:OpenVPN Management Interface Version 1 -- type 'help' for more info
>HOLD:Waiting for hold release
hold release
SUCCESS: hold release succeeded
>PASSWORD:Need 'Private Key' password
password "Private Key" ""
SUCCESS: 'Private Key' password entered, but not yet verified
This appears in the syslog:
Apr 5 17:21:13 [openvpn] PO_WAIT[0,0] fd=4 rev=0x00000001
rwflags=0x0001 arg=0x00000000
Apr 5 17:21:13 [openvpn] MANAGEMENT: Client connected from 127.0.0.1:11195
Apr 5 17:21:13 [openvpn] PO_CTL rwflags=0x0001 ev=5 arg=0x00000000
- Last output repeated 8 times -
Apr 5 17:21:21 [openvpn] PO_WAIT[0,0] fd=5 rev=0x00000001
rwflags=0x0001 arg=0x00000000
Apr 5 17:21:21 [openvpn] MANAGEMENT: CMD 'password [...]'
Apr 5 17:21:21 [openvpn] PO_CTL rwflags=0x0001 ev=5 arg=0x00000000
- Last output repeated 39 times -
Apr 5 17:22:01 [cron] (root) CMD (/usr/local/sbin/copytorrent.sh)
Apr 5 17:22:01 [openvpn] PO_CTL rwflags=0x0001 ev=5 arg=0x00000000
- Last output repeated 59 times -
Apr 5 17:23:01 [cron] (root) CMD (/usr/local/sbin/copytorrent.sh)
Apr 5 17:23:02 [openvpn] PO_CTL rwflags=0x0001 ev=5 arg=0x00000000
I don't know if I do something wrong - may be. How can I work around
this problem? Is it a bug? I use openvpn-2.0.5/2.0.6 compiled with
gcc-4.1.0.
Bye,
Michael
