Opened 5 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#539 closed Bug / Defect (wontfix)
Killing a client instance with colon in cn not possible
| Reported by: | thenktor | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Management | Version: | OpenVPN 2.3.4 (Community Ed) |
| Severity: | Not set (select this one, unless your'e a OpenVPN developer) | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
Hello,
in the mangement konsole I've tried to kill a client instance with a colon in it's common name, e.g.:
kill user:somebody
The management konsole recognizes this as an IP:port and prints the error:
ERROR: error parsing IP address: user
I've also tried:
kill "user:somebody"
kill user\:somebody
Both without luck. Therefore there seems to be no way to kill this client instance by it's common name.
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Indeed, if "kill" encounters something with a ":" in it, it is assumed to be "IPv4_address:port" of the client - documented in doc/management-notes.txt
Why not use the client ID instead ("client-kill <id>", where <id> can be retrieved by querying "status 2" or "status 3")?
(We're not going to fix this, though - "kill" is problematic in any case, as it does not handle IPv6 either - which is why client-kill exists)