[strongSwan] ipsec pool file with certificates

[Claude Tompers]

Is this something that will be changed in a future release or are these characters not allowed in x509 certificates ?

regards,
Claude


On Friday 29 October 2010 10:50:29 Andreas Steffen wrote:
> Unfortunately there is currently no workaround.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 29.10.2010 09:23, Claude Tompers wrote:
> > Thank you for your quick answer.
> > Is there no way to escape such characters ? i.e. "ST=n\/a"
> > 
> > regards,
> > Claude
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday 29 October 2010 09:14:43 Andreas Steffen wrote:
> >> The '/' and ',' characters are reserved for separating the
> >> individual Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs).
> >>
> >>   openssl x509 -in carolCert.pem -notext -subject
> >>
> >> returns
> >>
> >>   subject= /C=CH/O=Linux strongSwan/OU=Research/CN=carol at strongswan.org
> >>
> >> and which can be used with right|leftid.
> >>
> >> Thus "ST=n/a" will cause a syntax error.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Andreas
> >>
> >> On 29.10.2010 08:10, Claude Tompers wrote:
> >>> Hello Andreas,
> >>>
> >>> I've tried without the double quotes and it makes no difference for me.
> >>> Could it be that I have an invalid character in my DN ? i.e. "ST=n/a"
> >>>
> >>> The complete DN is C=LU, ST=n/a, L=Luxembourg, O=Fondation RESTENA, CN=Test Certificate
> >>>
> >>> kind regards,
> >>> Claude
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thursday 28 October 2010 23:59:01 Andreas Steffen wrote:
> >>>> Hello Claude,
> >>>>
> >>>> the Distinguished Names must be written in the address file without
> >>>> the double quotes:
> >>>>
> >>>> moon ipsec.d # cat addresses.txt
> >>>> 10.3.0.1
> >>>> 10.3.0.2
> >>>> 10.3.0.3=C=CH, O=Linux strongSwan, OU=Research, CN=carol at strongswan.org
> >>>> 10.3.0.4=C=CH, O=Linux strongSwan, OU=Accounting, CN=dave at strongswan.org
> >>>> 10.3.0.5
> >>>> 10.3.0.6=alice at strongswan.org
> >>>> 10.3.0.7=venus.strongswan.org
> >>>> 10.3.0.8
> >>>>
> >>>> ipsec pool --add bigpool --addresses addresses.txt --timeout 0
> >>>>
> >>>> After setting up a connection each from carol and dave to gateway moon
> >>>> and taking it down again I get:
> >>>>
> >>>> moon ipsec.d # ipsec pool --leases
> >>>> name     address         status   start                 end 
> >>>>        identity
> >>>> bigpool  10.3.0.3        static   Oct 28 23:52:38 2010  Oct 28 23:53:24 
> >>>> 2010  C=CH, O=Linux strongSwan, OU=Research, CN=carol at strongswan.org
> >>>> bigpool  10.3.0.4        static   Oct 28 23:53:10 2010  Oct 28 23:53:20 
> >>>> 2010  C=CH, O=Linux strongSwan, OU=Accounting, CN=dave at strongswan.org
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards
> >>>>
> >>>> Andreas
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/28/2010 03:52 PM, Claude Tompers wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I get no error, I just don't get the IP address I reserved. I'm supposed to get 192.168.122.190 (reserved) but I get 192.168.122.129 (the first one in the pool).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So I think that the id in the file, does not match the one sent by the client ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> regards,
> >>>>> Claude
> >>>>>
> 
> ======================================================================
> Andreas Steffen                         andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
> strongSwan - the Linux VPN Solution!                www.strongswan.org
> Institute for Internet Technologies and Applications
> University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil
> CH-8640 Rapperswil (Switzerland)
> ===========================================================[ITA-HSR]==
> 

-- 
Claude Tompers
Ingénieur réseau et système
Fondation RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche
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