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Hi,

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On Wednesday, 5 May 2021 08:51, Arne Schwabe <a...@rfc2549.org> wrote:

> > > Could you explain why you need the process ID of the daemon? I am trying
> > > to figure out why that is needed. I also don't understand the secure in
> > > this context. What are you protecting yourself against? You are not
> > > protecting your script being called from a malicious program as that
> > > could lookup the PID of openvpn and just set the daemon_id variable.
> >
> > The reason I am using the process ID is as follows:
> > When --tls-crypt-v2-verify is executed, it saves a file named:
> > $(certificate_serial_number}.${daemon_pid}
> > with data from the TLS-Crypt-V2 key metadata field, which can then
> > be read by the following scripts: --tls-verify and --client-connect.
>
> I can get behind the need of needing something daemon specific when
> running multiple daemon that scripts/plugins need something simple to
> identify a specific daemon. With management and a persistent connection
> that is easier to implicitly assign an ID but for scripts daemon_pid
> seems to be a good fit.
>
> So if we make that a bit clear in the commit message this gets an ACK
> from me.
>

Arne,

thanks for the feedback, I can resubmit with an improved commit message
and corrected email if required.

Thanks
R
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