Hi,
maybe a lame question, but did you enable the management interface? Is it
set to socket or IP:port?
Cheers,
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aleksandar Ivanisevic [mailto:aleksan...@ivanisevic.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 9:23 PM
> To: Openvpn Users <openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: [Openvpn-users] connecting to management interface from client-
> connect script?
>
> Hi,
>
> are there any restrictions on contacting the management interface from a
> client-connect script?
>
> tried everything i can think of: telnet, nc, socat, even curl, but
although
> everything works when calling the script from the command line, nothing
comes
> back from it when called from the server itself calls it, even ran an
strace, it
> connects and then just nothing comes back
>
> connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(5001),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in
> progress) poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT|POLLWRNORM}], 1, 0) = 1 ([{fd=3,
> revents=POLLOUT|POLLWRNORM}]) getsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR,
> [0], [4]) = 0 getpeername(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(5001),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, [128->16]) = 0 getsockname(3,
> {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(55836),
sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")},
> [128->16]) = 0
> poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 100) = 0 (Timeout)
> read(0, "status 3\n", 102400) = 9
> poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLOUT}])
> sendto(3, "status 3\n", 9, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 9
> poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 100) = 0 (Timeout)
> read(0, "", 102400) = 0
> poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 100) = 0 (Timeout)
> read(0, "", 102400) = 0
> poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 100) = 0 (Timeout)
> read(0, "", 102400) = 0
> poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 100) = 0 (Timeout)
> read(0, "", 102400) = 0
> close(3) = 0
>
> any hints?
>
> $ /usr/sbin/openvpn --version
> OpenVPN 2.4.9 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL]
> [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Apr 21 2020 library versions:
OpenSSL
> 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019, LZO 2.10 Originally developed by James Yonan
Copyright (C)
> 2002-2018 OpenVPN Inc <sa...@openvpn.net> Compile time defines:
> enable_async_push=no enable_comp_stub=no enable_crypto=yes
> enable_crypto_ofb_cfb=yes enable_debug=yes enable_def_auth=yes
> enable_dependency_tracking=no enable_dlopen=unknown
> enable_dlopen_self=unknown enable_dlopen_self_static=unknown
> enable_fast_install=needless enable_fragment=yes enable_iproute2=yes
> enable_libtool_lock=yes enable_lz4=yes enable_lzo=yes
> enable_maintainer_mode=no enable_management=yes enable_multihome=yes
> enable_pam_dlopen=no enable_pedantic=no enable_pf=yes enable_pkcs11=yes
> enable_plugin_auth_pam=yes enable_plugin_down_root=yes
> enable_plugins=yes enable_port_share=yes enable_selinux=no
> enable_server=yes enable_shared=yes enable_shared_with_static_runtimes=no
> enable_silent_rules=no enable_small=no enable_static=yes enable_strict=no
> enable_strict_options=no enable_systemd=yes enable_werror=no
> enable_win32_dll=yes enable_x509_alt_username=yes with_aix_soname=aix
> with_crypto_library=openssl with_gnu_ld=yes with_mem_check=no
> with_sysroot=no support@qbs01:~/config/vpn$ cat /etc/debian_version
> 10.8
>
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