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| author | Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org> | 2020-09-01 16:52:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org> | 2020-09-01 16:52:17 +0200 |
| commit | 9fc3b98112217f2d92a67977dbde0987cc7a1803 (patch) | |
| tree | 29fcc8654ee65d9dd89ade797bea2f3d9dfd9cfd /doc/man-sections/inline-files.rst | |
| parent | a8758c0e03eed188dcb9da0e4fd781a67c25bf1e (diff) | |
| parent | 69b02b1f7fd609d84ace13ab04697158de2418a9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'debian/experimental-2.5'
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diff --git a/doc/man-sections/inline-files.rst b/doc/man-sections/inline-files.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..819bd3c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man-sections/inline-files.rst @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +INLINE FILE SUPPORT +=================== + +OpenVPN allows including files in the main configuration for the ``--ca``, +``--cert``, ``--dh``, ``--extra-certs``, ``--key``, ``--pkcs12``, +``--secret``, ``--crl-verify``, ``--http-proxy-user-pass``, ``--tls-auth``, +``--auth-gen-token-secret``, ``--tls-crypt`` and ``--tls-crypt-v2`` +options. + +Each inline file started by the line ``<option>`` and ended by the line +``</option>`` + +Here is an example of an inline file usage + +:: + + <cert> + -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- + [...] + -----END CERTIFICATE----- + </cert> + +When using the inline file feature with ``--pkcs12`` the inline file has +to be base64 encoded. Encoding of a .p12 file into base64 can be done +for example with OpenSSL by running :code:`openssl base64 -in input.p12` |