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diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index 786719d..39b128f 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ and in server mode configurations. The server timeout is set twice the value of the second argument. -This ensures that a timeout is dectected on client side +This ensures that a timeout is detected on client side before the server side drops the connection. For example, @@ -2459,7 +2459,7 @@ Normally, adaptive compression is enabled with .B \-\-comp-lzo. Adaptive compression tries to optimize the case where you have -compression enabled, but you are sending predominantly uncompressible +compression enabled, but you are sending predominantly incompressible (or pre-compressed) packets over the tunnel, such as an FTP or rsync transfer of a large, compressed file. With adaptive compression, OpenVPN will periodically sample the compression process to measure its @@ -2660,7 +2660,7 @@ on sufficiently fast hardware. SSL/TLS authentication must be used in this mode. .\"********************************************************* .TP -.B \-\-server network netmask +.B \-\-server network netmask ['nopool'] A helper directive designed to simplify the configuration of OpenVPN's server mode. This directive will set up an OpenVPN server which will allocate addresses to clients @@ -2695,6 +2695,9 @@ expands as follows: if !nopool: ifconfig-pool 10.8.0.2 10.8.0.254 255.255.255.0 push "route-gateway 10.8.0.1" + if route-gateway unset: + route-gateway 10.8.0.2 + .in -4 .ft .fi @@ -3498,7 +3501,7 @@ like this: .B /C=US/L=Somewhere/CN=John Doe/emailAddress=john@example.com .IP -In addition the old behavivour was to remap any character other than +In addition the old behaviour was to remap any character other than alphanumeric, underscore ('_'), dash ('-'), dot ('.'), and slash ('/') to underscore ('_'). The X.509 Subject string as returned by the .B tls_id @@ -4354,7 +4357,7 @@ A different mode can be specified for each provider. Mode is encoded as hex number, and can be a mask one of the following: .B 0 -(default) \-\- Try to determind automatically. +(default) \-\- Try to determine automatically. .br .B 1 \-\- Use sign. @@ -4745,12 +4748,44 @@ the tls-verify script returns. The file name used for the certificate is available via the peer_cert environment variable. .\"********************************************************* .TP -.B \-\-x509-username-field fieldname -Field in x509 certificate subject to be used as username (default=CN). -.B Fieldname -will be uppercased before matching. When this option is used, the -.B \-\-verify-x509-username -option will match against the chosen fieldname instead of the CN. +.B \-\-x509-username-field [ext:\]fieldname +Field in the X.509 certificate subject to be used as the username (default=CN). +Typically, this option is specified with +.B fieldname +as either of the following: + +.B \-\-x509-username-field +emailAddress +.br +.B \-\-x509-username-field ext:\fRsubjectAltName + +The first example uses the value of the "emailAddress" attribute in the +certificate's Subject field as the username. The second example uses +the +.B ext: +prefix to signify that the X.509 extension +.B fieldname +"subjectAltName" be searched for an rfc822Name (email) field to be used +as the username. In cases where there are multiple email addresses +in +.B ext:fieldname\fR, +the last occurrence is chosen. + +When this option is used, the +.B \-\-verify-x509-name +option will match against the chosen +.B fieldname +instead of the Common Name. + +.B Please note: +This option has a feature which will convert an all-lowercase +.B fieldname +to uppercase characters, e.g., ou -> OU. A mixed-case +.B fieldname +or one having the +.B ext: +prefix will be left as-is. This automatic upcasing feature +is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-tls-remote name (DEPRECATED) |