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Add note about file permissions and --crl-verify to manpage.

Trac #522

Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Acked-by: Steffan Karger <steffan.karger@fox-it.com>
Message-Id: <1430593625-855-1-git-send-email-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/9634

Gert Doering authored on 2015/05/03 04:07:05
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@@ -5068,6 +5068,11 @@ is a directory containing files named as revoked serial numbers
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 requests a connection, where the client certificate serial number
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 (decimal string) is the name of a file present in the directory,
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 it will be rejected.
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+
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+Note: As the crl file (or directory) is read every time a peer connects,
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+if you are dropping root privileges with
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+.B --user,
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+make sure that this user has sufficient privileges to read the file.
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 .\"*********************************************************
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 .SS SSL Library information:
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 .\"*********************************************************