Re: Can a configuration item be cleared in the server.conf file

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:27:41AM +0100, Jochen Bern wrote:
> .02) OpenVPN prioritizes command line parameters over statements in config
> files on the theory that someone probably typed them in for *this*
> particular execution of the openvpn binary 

It doesn't.  It depends on ordering

 openvpn --config myconfig.ovpn --something foo

will make "--something foo" override any occurance of "--something" in
the config file, because it's coming *later*

 openvpn --something foo --config myconfig.ovpn

in this case, the config file will "win".

Later occurances of the same option override prior occurances - which
for obvious reasons does not work for "turn this on" flags with no
parameter.

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             [email protected]

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