Hi,

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 12:34:15PM -0700, Micah Morton wrote:
> @gert:
> 
> From the help message: "--setenv name value : Set a custom environmental
> variable to pass to script."
> 
> --setenv appears to set string values for scripts only, not for the main
> openvpn process (which is reading them in the push_peer_info() function).
> Starting a test openvpn server with `--setenv foo bar` and then running
> `strings` on /proc/PID/environ doesn't show "foo=bar". This suggests that
> getenv() calls in the main openvpn process that try to read these vars may
> return NULL.

This stuff isn't pushed into openvpn's own environment, because it does
not need to.  It goes into session->opt->es, which basically is a linked
list of "NAME=VALUE" strings (and ssl.c / push_peer_info() walks that).

When external programs are called, opt->es is put into *their* environment.

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             g...@greenie.muc.de

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