Tested the package from -proposed with the same certificate I generated in comment #25 and this time is seems to work just fine:
r...@ds9:~# apt-cache policy openvpn openvpn: Installed: 2.1~rc7-1ubuntu3.6 Candidate: 2.1~rc7-1ubuntu3.6 Version table: *** 2.1~rc7-1ubuntu3.6 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.1~rc7-1ubuntu3.5 0 500 http://ftp.astral.ro hardy-updates/main Packages 2.1~rc7-1ubuntu3.3 0 500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages 2.1~rc7-1ubuntu3 0 990 http://ftp.astral.ro hardy/main Packages r...@ds9:/etc/openvpn# strace -s256 openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/server.conf > /tmp/strace-good.txt 2>&1 r...@ds9:~# cat /tmp/strace-good.txt |grep ximi3 recvfrom(4, " \377d\333ii\266\31ow\24\5I\266\362\267\211!M\341\224\373\226\346$\0224/\325\0\0\0&M\10\324m\0\0\0\0\4\3U\4\3\23\5ximi31\v0\t\6\3U\4\6\23\2RO1\v0\t\6\3U\4\10\23\2CJ1\0240\22\6\3U\4\7\23\vCluj Napoca1\f0\n\6\3U\4\n\23\3DS91 0\36\6\t*\206h\206\367\r\1\t\1\26\21gi...@nara", 1558, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(60504), sin_addr=inet_addr("89.136.48.193")}, [16]) = 142 write(1, "Wed Dec 15 16:45:02 2010 us=209343 89.136.48.193:60504 VERIFY OK: depth=0, /CN=ximi3/C=RO/ST=CJ/L=Cluj_Napoca/O=DS9/emailaddress=gi...@narancs.net\n", 147) = 147 write(1, "Wed Dec 15 16:45:02 2010 us=369512 89.136.48.193:60504 [ximi3] Peer Connection Initiated with 89.136.48.193:60504\n", 114) = 114 open("ccd/ximi3", O_RDONLY) = 6 write(1, "Wed Dec 15 16:45:02 2010 us=370180 ximi3/89.136.48.193:60504 OPTIONS IMPORT: reading client specific options from: ccd/ximi3\n", 125) = 125 My old certificates do work also, it seems the fix didn't break anything. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/265058 Title: [SRU] openvpn2.1~rc7 fails to pick up the CN of certificates -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs