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Specify "--auth-user-pass username-only" for openvpn to prompt
for only username, not password. Prompt via management interface
uses the usual ">PASSWORD 'Auth' " prompt with type "username"
instead of "username/password".

Internally, the password gets set as "[[BLANK]]" which is currently
used as tag for blank password.

Not compatible with --static-challenge or when username and
password are inlined or read from a file. In such cases, the user
hard-code a dummy password in the file instead.

Change-Id: I788f76e6a70a9c20bca3367140d2741bd0551582
Signed-off-by: Selva Nair <selva.nair@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arne Schwabe <arne-openvpn@rfc2549.org>
Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1548
Message-Id: <20260303142819.6123-1-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg35855.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
(cherry picked from commit dfbf80b0a0)
This commit is contained in:
Selva Nair 2026-03-03 15:28:14 +01:00 committed by Gert Doering
parent b5039975bf
commit 96781b42f2
12 changed files with 92 additions and 15 deletions

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@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ configuration.
auth-user-pass up
If ``up`` is present, it must be a file containing username/password on 2
lines. If the password line is missing, OpenVPN will prompt for one.
lines or a flag named :code:`username-only` to indicate no password
should be prompted for. In the former case, if the password line is missing
in the file, OpenVPN will prompt for one.
If ``up`` is omitted, username/password will be prompted from the
console.
@ -84,6 +86,20 @@ configuration.
where password is optional, and will be prompted from the console if
missing.
The :code:`username-only` flag is meant to be used with SSO authentication.
In this case the user will be asked for a username but not password. Instead,
a dummy password :code:`[[BLANK]]` is generated internally and submitted to
the server. See management-notes.txt for how this option affects username/password
prompt via the management interface. For the console, it simply eliminates
the password prompt.
The :code:`username-only` flag cannot be used along with embedding username and/or
password in the config file, or while reading them from an external file. In
such cases, if only username is relevant and no password prompt is desired, a
dummy password like 'no_passsword' should be embedded as well. This flag is also
incompatible with the ``--static-challenge`` option and legacy ``dynamic challenge``
protocol.
The server configuration must specify an ``--auth-user-pass-verify``
script to verify the username/password provided by the client.

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@ -304,6 +304,19 @@ COMMAND -- password and username
username "Auth" foo
password "Auth" bar
Example 3:
>PASSWORD:Need 'Auth' username
OpenVPN needs a --auth-user-pass username. The
management interface client should respond:
username "Auth" foo
In this case the user should not be prompted for a password.
Support for such username-only prompting is conditional on the
client announcing a version >= 4.
The username/password itself can be in quotes, and special
characters such as double quote or backslash must be escaped,
for example,
@ -499,6 +512,7 @@ version. This was fixed starting version 4: clients should expect
Minimum client version required for certain features is listed below:
>PK_SIGN:[base64] -- version 2 or greater
>PK_SIGN:[base64],[alg] -- version 3 or greater
>PASSWORD:Need 'Auth' username -- version 4 or greater
COMMAND -- auth-retry
---------------------

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@ -655,10 +655,10 @@ init_query_passwords(const struct context *c)
enable_auth_user_pass();
#ifdef ENABLE_MANAGEMENT
auth_user_pass_setup(c->options.auth_user_pass_file, c->options.auth_user_pass_file_inline,
&c->options.sc_info);
c->options.auth_user_pass_username_only, &c->options.sc_info);
#else
auth_user_pass_setup(c->options.auth_user_pass_file, c->options.auth_user_pass_file_inline,
NULL);
c->options.auth_user_pass_username_only, NULL);
#endif
}
}
@ -3383,6 +3383,7 @@ do_init_crypto_tls(struct context *c, const unsigned int flags)
}
to.auth_user_pass_file = options->auth_user_pass_file;
to.auth_user_pass_file_inline = options->auth_user_pass_file_inline;
to.auth_user_pass_username_only = options->auth_user_pass_username_only;
to.auth_token_generate = options->auth_token_generate;
to.auth_token_lifetime = options->auth_token_lifetime;
to.auth_token_renewal = options->auth_token_renewal;

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@ -58,9 +58,6 @@
#define MANAGEMENT_ECHO_FLAGS 0
#endif
/* tag for blank username/password */
static const char blank_up[] = "[[BLANK]]";
/*
* Management client versions indicating feature support in client.
* Append new values as needed but do not change exisiting ones.
@ -70,6 +67,7 @@ enum mcv
MCV_DEFAULT = 1,
MCV_PKSIGN = 2,
MCV_PKSIGN_ALG = 3,
MCV_USERNAME_ONLY = 4,
};
struct management *management; /* GLOBAL */
@ -740,6 +738,13 @@ man_up_finalize(struct management *man)
{
switch (man->connection.up_query_mode)
{
case UP_QUERY_USERNAME:
if (strlen(man->connection.up_query.username))
{
man->connection.up_query.defined = true;
}
break;
case UP_QUERY_USER_PASS:
if (!strlen(man->connection.up_query.username))
{
@ -794,7 +799,9 @@ static void
man_query_username(struct management *man, const char *type, const char *string)
{
const bool needed =
((man->connection.up_query_mode == UP_QUERY_USER_PASS) && man->connection.up_query_type);
((man->connection.up_query_mode == UP_QUERY_USER_PASS
|| man->connection.up_query_mode == UP_QUERY_USERNAME)
&& man->connection.up_query_type);
man_query_user_pass(man, type, string, needed, "username", man->connection.up_query.username,
USER_PASS_LEN);
}
@ -3558,6 +3565,12 @@ management_query_user_pass(struct management *man, struct user_pass *up, const c
prefix = "PASSWORD";
alert_type = "password";
}
else if ((man->connection.client_version >= MCV_USERNAME_ONLY) && (flags & GET_USER_PASS_USERNAME_ONLY))
{
up_query_mode = UP_QUERY_USERNAME;
prefix = "PASSWORD";
alert_type = "username";
}
else
{
up_query_mode = UP_QUERY_USER_PASS;

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@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ struct man_settings
#define UP_QUERY_PASS 2
#define UP_QUERY_NEED_OK 3
#define UP_QUERY_NEED_STR 4
#define UP_QUERY_USERNAME 5
/* states */
#define MS_INITIAL 0 /* all sockets are closed */

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@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ get_user_pass_cr(struct user_pass *up, const char *auth_file, const char *prefix
{
msg(M_WARN, "Note: previous '%s' credentials failed", prefix);
}
#ifdef ENABLE_MANAGEMENT
/*
* Get username/password from management interface?
@ -389,7 +388,7 @@ get_user_pass_cr(struct user_pass *up, const char *auth_file, const char *prefix
query_user_add(BSTR(&user_prompt), up->username, USER_PASS_LEN, true);
}
if (password_from_stdin)
if (password_from_stdin && !(flags & GET_USER_PASS_USERNAME_ONLY))
{
query_user_add(BSTR(&pass_prompt), up->password, USER_PASS_LEN, false);
}
@ -451,6 +450,12 @@ get_user_pass_cr(struct user_pass *up, const char *auth_file, const char *prefix
}
}
/* Use tag for blank password if we are not prompting for one */
if (flags & GET_USER_PASS_USERNAME_ONLY)
{
strncpy(up->password, blank_up, sizeof(up->password));
}
string_mod(up->username, CC_PRINT, CC_CRLF, 0);
string_mod(up->password, CC_PRINT, CC_CRLF, 0);

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@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ const char **make_extended_arg_array(char **p, bool is_inline, struct gc_arena *
* Get and store a username/password
*/
/* tag for blank username/password */
static const char blank_up[] = "[[BLANK]]";
struct user_pass
{
bool defined;
@ -123,6 +126,8 @@ struct static_challenge_info
#define GET_USER_PASS_INLINE_CREDS (1 << 10)
/** indicates password and response should be concatenated */
#define GET_USER_PASS_STATIC_CHALLENGE_CONCAT (1 << 11)
/** indicate that only username should be prompted for auth-user-pass */
#define GET_USER_PASS_USERNAME_ONLY (1 << 12)
/**
* Retrieves the user credentials from various sources depending on the flags.

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@ -511,7 +511,8 @@ static const char usage_message[] =
" up is a file containing the username on the first line,\n"
" and a password on the second. If either the password or both\n"
" the username and the password are omitted OpenVPN will prompt\n"
" for them from console.\n"
" for them from console. If [up] is 'username-only', only username\n"
" will be prompted for from console or management interface.\n"
"--pull : Accept certain config file options from the peer as if they\n"
" were part of the local config file. Must be specified\n"
" when connecting to a '--mode server' remote host.\n"
@ -3939,6 +3940,12 @@ options_postprocess_mutate(struct options *o, struct env_set *es)
{
o->auth_token_renewal = o->renegotiate_seconds;
}
#if ENABLE_MANAGEMENT
if (o->auth_user_pass_username_only && o->sc_info.challenge_text)
{
msg(M_USAGE, "'auth-user-pass username-only' cannot be used with static challenge");
}
#endif
pre_connect_save(o);
}
@ -7742,7 +7749,13 @@ add_option(struct options *options, char *p[], bool is_inline, const char *file,
else if (streq(p[0], "auth-user-pass") && !p[2])
{
VERIFY_PERMISSION(OPT_P_GENERAL | OPT_P_INLINE);
if (p[1])
options->auth_user_pass_username_only = false;
if (p[1] && streq(p[1], "username-only"))
{
options->auth_user_pass_username_only = true;
options->auth_user_pass_file = "stdin";
}
else if (p[1])
{
options->auth_user_pass_file = p[1];
options->auth_user_pass_file_inline = is_inline;

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@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ struct options
unsigned int push_update_options_found; /* tracks which option types have been reset in current PUSH_UPDATE sequence */
const char *auth_user_pass_file;
bool auth_user_pass_file_inline;
bool auth_user_pass_username_only;
struct options_pre_connect *pre_connect;
int scheduled_exit_interval;

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@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ enable_auth_user_pass(void)
}
void
auth_user_pass_setup(const char *auth_file, bool is_inline, const struct static_challenge_info *sci)
auth_user_pass_setup(const char *auth_file, bool is_inline, bool username_only,
const struct static_challenge_info *sci)
{
unsigned int flags = GET_USER_PASS_MANAGEMENT;
@ -298,6 +299,10 @@ auth_user_pass_setup(const char *auth_file, bool is_inline, const struct static_
{
flags |= GET_USER_PASS_INLINE_CREDS;
}
if (username_only)
{
flags |= GET_USER_PASS_USERNAME_ONLY;
}
if (!auth_user_pass.defined && !auth_token.defined)
{
@ -2099,10 +2104,12 @@ key_method_2_write(struct buffer *buf, struct tls_multi *multi, struct tls_sessi
{
#ifdef ENABLE_MANAGEMENT
auth_user_pass_setup(session->opt->auth_user_pass_file,
session->opt->auth_user_pass_file_inline, session->opt->sci);
session->opt->auth_user_pass_file_inline,
session->opt->auth_user_pass_username_only, session->opt->sci);
#else
auth_user_pass_setup(session->opt->auth_user_pass_file,
session->opt->auth_user_pass_file_inline, NULL);
session->opt->auth_user_pass_file_inline,
session->opt->auth_user_pass_username_only, NULL);
#endif
struct user_pass *up = &auth_user_pass;

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@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ void enable_auth_user_pass(void);
* credentials stored in the file, however, if is_inline is true then auth_file
* contains the username/password inline.
*/
void auth_user_pass_setup(const char *auth_file, bool is_inline,
void auth_user_pass_setup(const char *auth_file, bool is_inline, bool username_only,
const struct static_challenge_info *sc_info);
/*

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@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ struct tls_options
const char *export_peer_cert_dir;
const char *auth_user_pass_file;
bool auth_user_pass_file_inline;
bool auth_user_pass_username_only;
bool auth_token_generate; /**< Generate auth-tokens on successful
* user/pass auth,seet via