Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#222 closed Bug / Defect (wontfix)

hang in auth-user-pass-verify script causes hang in openvpn

Reported by: geoff.lovett@… Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: plug-ins / plug-in API Version: OpenVPN 2.1.4 (Community Ed)
Severity: Not set (select this one, unless your'e a OpenVPN developer) Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Hello, when the auth-user-pass-verify script hangs for any reason, it causes the whole openvpn instance to hang, meaning all client traffic stops being passed, and clients timeout disconnect.

Thanks for an otherwise excellent product.
Geoff

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by David Sommerseth

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed

This is a known issue. OpenVPN is single threaded, which means it is not easy to solve this for the script hooks. However, this can be solved by using 'deferred authentication' which is possible via the plug-in API.

An example plug-in for deferred authentication can be found in the source tree, in sample/sample-plugins/defer/simple.c :
​http://openvpn.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=openvpn/openvpn.git;a=blob;f=sample/sample-plugins/defer/simple.c;h=65398657d10fd954e09e4ec2f113763c2d6e3407;hb=HEAD

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