Hi, On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:06:27AM -0400, Tom Parker wrote: > We have recently upgrades to openvpn 2.3 and this name remapping has > been removed. I appreciate that for lots of things not changing the > Common Name at all is the correct behaviour but i'm wondering if there > is a flag that can be set to retain the behaviour for ccd files. > > With the current version compat-names still works but it has been > deprecated and will be removed according to the docs in the source code. > > I would rather not have spaces in my file names as that makes all kinds > of other scripts more difficult to manage. Sadly, regenerating all the > certificate common names will not be a trivial task either. > > Is there a plan to maintain backwards compatability with ccd files that > have spaces mapped to underscores?
Well, such questions really should be discussed on the openvpn-devel
mailing list (as not all developers read here, and if we try to search
something in the archives, we won't do it on the -user list...).
We always strive to get rid of code that "is no longer needed" or
"should not be needed", and this is one of these code paths, which is
why we planned to remove it (and, well, compat-names really breaks
things for users with non-ASCII user names, because all of a sudden,
all users are named "_______"...)
I see your point about the ccd file names, but I worry that if we
change that *again* (= always change spaces to underscores, but do
no other name remapping) we might break people's configs *again* for
those who have converted to "User Name" format already...
Anyway. I think we'd discuss a patch very thoroughly that would do
this, and not reject it right away :-) (but over there in the -devel
list).
gert
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