On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 09:37:49PM +0200, Kosztyu András wrote: > Hi, > > Does openvpn support utf8 encoding (unicode?) for usernames and passwords? > > I could not find anything about it, only a very old mail > (http://openvpn.net/archive/openvpn-devel/2006-04/msg00044.html) > > > > I've been using 2.1 rc18 as server for months now without any trouble, but > now i got a report that special character passwords are not working. > > The authentication is done by a simple bash script. Added a line to this > script to check if it gets the passwords with wrong charset or gets it at > all (echo $username:$password:TEST >> /var/log/openvpn/test) but it shows > nothing for the password.
Hi, You need --script-security 3 in order to get passwords passed to scripts. Regards, Alberto -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | Formación, consultoría y soporte técnico agi@(inittab.org|debian.org)| en GNU/Linux y software libre Encrypted mail preferred | http://inittab.com Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3
