Document that auth-user-pass may be inlined

Commits 7d48d31b, 39619b7f added support for inlining username
and, optionally, password.
Add a description of its usage in the man page.

Github: resolves OpenVPN/openvpn#370

Change-Id: I7a1765661f7676eeba8016024080fd1026220ced
Signed-off-by: Selva Nair <selva.nair@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@openvpn.net>
Message-Id: <20240220175215.2731491-1-selva.nair@gmail.com>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg28284.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
(cherry picked from commit fad2d7017e)
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Selva Nair 2024-02-20 12:52:15 -05:00 committed by Gert Doering
parent 6640a10bf6
commit 2aac80e4b1
2 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ configuration.
If ``up`` is omitted, username/password will be prompted from the
console.
This option can also be inlined
::
<auth-user-pass>
username
[password]
</auth-user-pass>
where password is optional, and will be prompted from the console if
missing.
The server configuration must specify an ``--auth-user-pass-verify``
script to verify the username/password provided by the client.

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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ OpenVPN allows including files in the main configuration for the ``--ca``,
``--cert``, ``--dh``, ``--extra-certs``, ``--key``, ``--pkcs12``,
``--secret``, ``--crl-verify``, ``--http-proxy-user-pass``, ``--tls-auth``,
``--auth-gen-token-secret``, ``--peer-fingerprint``, ``--tls-crypt``,
``--tls-crypt-v2`` and ``--verify-hash`` options.
``--tls-crypt-v2``, ``--verify-hash`` and ``--auth-user-pass`` options.
Each inline file started by the line ``<option>`` and ended by the line
``</option>``