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0004497: Openvpn GUI settings not saved to settings file - settings file resets when saving via GUI - MantisBT
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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0004497Endian FirewallOpenVPN Client and Serverpublic2012-11-14 08:342013-03-22 16:26
Reporteripanema211 
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PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusnewResolutionopen 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version2.5 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
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Summary0004497: Openvpn GUI settings not saved to settings file - settings file resets when saving via GUI
DescriptionHello,

I upgraded our firewall from 2.4.1 to 2.5. I restored a backup to do this, mainly because we have around 150 openvpn users I didn't want to recreate.

When I try to save global options in the GUI, nothing is saved to the /etc/openvpn.conf file. When I edit the conf file and restart the Openvpn service through SSH, everything is OK and the options are pushed correctly. The options aren't displayed in the GUI though.

When I then try to change a global option in the GUI, or even just click the save & restart button in the GUI, the openvpn.conf file gets reset to default, and my clients receive the DNS servers below instead of their correct ones (at that moment no DNS servers are defined in the conf file because of the reset)

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fec0:0:0:ffff::1%1
                                    fec0:0:0:ffff::2%1
                                    fec0:0:0:ffff::3%1


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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2012-11-14 08:34ipanema211New Issue
2013-01-07 17:33ipanema211Note Added: 0008362
2013-03-22 16:26richardskamarNote Added: 0008395

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(0008362)
ipanema211   
2013-01-07 17:33   
THIS BEHAVIOUR IS REPRODUCEABLE!!!

Dear staff, this is a real bug. Please take a look at it...

I confirm this happens to all systems when restoring a 2.4 backup!
(0008395)
richardskamar   
2013-03-22 16:26   
I've had a similar problem however it is when i edit var/efw/openvpn/settings file and make changes for my ldap settings, the parameters within the file specifically the following lines

LDAP_BIND_DN=cn=EndianLDAP,ou=Service Accounts,dc=mydomain,dc=com

LDAP_USER_BASEDN=ou=All Users,dc=mydomain,dc=com

after administering VPN via SSH and restart the openvpn service through SSH, everything is OK however when I then try to change a global option in the GUI, or even just click the Save & Restart button in the web GUI (VPN > Advanced), the settings file (var\efw\openvpn\settings gets modified as shown below from the original modification above, and my clients receive a auth error trying to VPN in. Note the added quotations appended.

LDAP_BIND_DN='cn=EndianLDAP,ou=Service Accounts,dc=mydomain,dc=com'

LDAP_USER_BASEDN='ou=All Users,dc=mydomain,dc=com'

These qoutes now appear and seem to causing a problem, thus to remedy have to make all global changes first then edit settings file and restart openvpn service via ssh interface.