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authorArne Schwabe2021-07-19 15:31:32 +0200
committerGert Doering2021-07-28 12:17:13 +0200
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Cleanup handling of initial auth token
This changes that auth_token_initial is set when the token is initially generated instead when pushing the token. Even I do not know anymore why I did it in this way in the first place. Also use multi->auth_token_initial as source for the sesssion ID since it should now always be available. Also set auth_token_initial directly to up->password once we verified that we have gotten a valid token from a client. This cleans ups the logic in generating the environment and makes the code flow clearer. Since the change makes auth_token_initial always available we need to add a check to only send a PUSH reply to update the token on renegotiations. The old code relied on multi->auth_token not being set in this case. This commit also removes the workaround for old OpenVPN clients. These were only available as commercial OpenVPN Connect client and not in use anymore. Furthermore, introduce a check if the session ID has changed during a session. Even though this is still a valid authentication changing to a different auth token mid session is highly irregular and should never occur naturally. Patch V2: rebase. Patch V3: fix formatting, clarifying commit message, remove initial token workaround for old v3. Patch v4: move sending the auth-token for renegotiations to a sane place and trigger it when the TLS session reaches its fully authenticated state. Patch v5: Move also setting auth_token_inital from up->password to a more logical place, general cleanups, add session id mismatch check Patch v6: Rework some comments and general cleanup of small things Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net> Message-Id: <20210719133132.128783-1-arne@rfc2549.org> URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg22645.html Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man-sections/server-options.rst b/doc/man-sections/server-options.rst
index 7154733..f1d2ec3 100644
--- a/doc/man-sections/server-options.rst
+++ b/doc/man-sections/server-options.rst
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ fast hardware. SSL/TLS authentication must be used in this mode.
token is reached or after not being renewed for more than 2 \*
``reneg-sec`` seconds. Clients will be sent renewed tokens on every TLS
renogiation to keep the client's token updated. This is done to
- invalidate a token if a client is disconnected for a sufficently long
+ invalidate a token if a client is disconnected for a sufficiently long
time, while at the same time permitting much longer token lifetimes for
active clients.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ fast hardware. SSL/TLS authentication must be used in this mode.
When the :code:`external-auth` keyword is present the normal
authentication method will always be called even if auth-token succeeds.
Normally other authentications method are skipped if auth-token
- verification suceeds or fails.
+ verification succeeds or fails.
This option postpones this decision to the external authentication
methods and checks the validity of the account and do other checks.