[Bug 814164] [NEW] The init script does not handle the script-security parameter correctly when there are multiple configuration files

[Simon Déziel]

Public bug reported:

When there are 2 or more VPN configuration files and one of them does
not use the script-security parameter, the subsequent (alphabetic order)
openvpn process will be called with "--script-security 2" no matter what
is the value of the script-security parameter in the configuration file.
This behaviour only occurs when the init script processes many VPN
configuration files in one call (on startup/restart).

Example of the problem :

# grep script-security patrick.conf zzz.conf 
zzz.conf:script-security 1

# /etc/init.d/openvpn restart

# ps aux| grep openvpn
openvpn   5705  0.4  0.0  37040  2812 ?        Ss   12:27   0:00 /usr/sbin/openvpn --writepid /var/run/openvpn.patrick.pid --daemon ovpn-patrick --cd /etc/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/patrick.conf --script-security 2
openvpn   5722  0.1  0.0  30968  2996 ?        Ss   12:27   0:00 /usr/sbin/openvpn --writepid /var/run/openvpn.zzz.pid --daemon ovpn-zzz --cd /etc/openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/zzz.conf --script-security 2

The process for the "zzz.conf" VPN should have script-security 1 as the
configuration file says but it's not the case.

# lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 11.04
Release:	11.04

# apt-cache policy openvpn
openvpn:
  Installed: 2.1.3-2ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.1.3-2ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2.1.3-2ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: openvpn 2.1.3-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 21 11:31:48 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openvpn
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: openvpn (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty

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Title:
  The init script does not handle the script-security parameter
  correctly when there are multiple configuration files

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