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Auto-escape '&' ampersand explanation: 'easyrsa' uses 'sed' to build a safe SSL config file, which means that an unescaped '&' ampersand cannot be used in the 'vars' file. This is due to 'sed' treating '&' as a special character. Rather than expect users to know all this and use extended escaping, to get around 'easyrsa' set_var(), use auto-escape. This allows use of unescaped '&' in vars file. Like any other character. Auto-escape '$' dollar-sign explanation: Using '$' in the 'vars' file MUST be escaped. Escaping '$' to stop expansion is common knowledge and the first thing a user will try. Using an escaped '$' in the 'vars' file results in an unescaped '$' being written to the SSL config file, which is then expanded by OpenSSL or choked on by LibreSSL. Auto-escaping '$' fixes this. Add SSL library name to die(). Allow verify_ssl_lib() to run ONLY once. Improve comments. Re-order the areas searched for data files to prioritise preferred locations over old defaults. Tested-with: OpenSSL and LibreSSL and on Windows and FreeBSD. Signed-off-by: Richard T Bonhomme <tincantech@protonmail.com>
Overview
easy-rsa is a CLI utility to build and manage a PKI CA. In laymen's terms, this means to create a root certificate authority, and request and sign certificates, including intermediate CAs and certificate revocation lists (CRL).
Downloads
If you are looking for release downloads, please see the releases section on GitHub. Releases are also available as source checkouts using named tags.
Documentation
For 3.x project documentation and usage, see the README.quickstart.md file or the more detailed docs under the doc/ directory. The .md files are in Markdown format and can be converted to html files as desired for release packages, or read as-is in plaintext.
Getting help using easy-rsa
Currently, Easy-RSA development co-exists with OpenVPN even though they are separate projects. The following resources are good places as of this writing to seek help using Easy-RSA:
The openvpn-users mailing list is a good place to post usage or help questions.
You can also try libera.chat IRC network, in channels #openvpn for general support or #easyrsa for development discussion.
Branch structure
The easy-rsa master branch is currently tracking development for the 3.x release cycle. Please note that, at any given time, master may be broken. Feel free to create issues against master, but have patience when using the master branch. It is recommended to use a release, and priority will be given to bugs identified in the most recent release.
The prior 2.x and 1.x versions are available as release branches for tracking and possible back-porting of relevant fixes. Branch layout is:
master <- 3.1, at present
v3.x.x pre-release branches, used for staging branches
release/3.0 v3.0.x bugfix/security/openssl updates
release/2.x
release/1.x
LICENSING info for 3.x is in the COPYING.md file
Code style, standards
We are attempting to adhere to the POSIX standard, which can be found here: