Am 11.06.21 um 02:41 schrieb Antonio Quartulli:
> Hi,
> 
> On 20/05/2021 17:11, Arne Schwabe wrote:
>> When not using username and password (i.e. auth-user-pass) it can still make
>> to provide the client with an auth-token, e.g. for allowing a session to
>> continue after a reconnect without requiring 2FA again.
>>
>> However, without --auth-user-pass openvpn does not have a username and will
>> ignore any pushed auth-token command.
>>
>> This patch adds support for auth-token-user to set the username that should
>> be used for auth-token
>>
>> The spec of using auth-token-user base64-encoded-user are the ones that
>> OpenVPN3 already implements.
>>
>> Patch V2: Improve style, fix comments and commit message
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <a...@rfc2549.org>
> 
> This patch hasn't changed since the last time it was on the mailing list
> (and I acked it), so the same goes for this copy.
> 
> @Arne I have a new question though: what is expected to happen is the
> --auth-token-user is specified in the global config?
> 
> Is the same user supposed to be used with every client?
> Or is it just ignored?
> 
> I am testing this case and I don't see the user being pushed to the client.
>

It is probably the same as with auth-token itself. OpenVPN will pick it
up and use it but most times it is not every useful as auth-token should
be pushed from the server. It is an artefact from how we parse things.

Arne


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