[Vpn-help] PSK client with asn1dn server?

Peter Eisch peter at boku.net
Fri Sep 15 12:32:36 CDT 2006


On 9/15/06 12:24 PM, "Matthew Grooms" <mgrooms at shrew.net> wrote:

> Peter Eisch wrote:
>> I changed my testing server back to 'my_identifier asn1dn' and
>> [re]connected with the mutual-psk-xauth config and it connected.  Does
>> this make sense?  How could the client auth the server?  The server
>> seems to go through the motions of doing RSA steps (still not an expert
>> on reading racoon's -ddd output) even though the phase 1 proposal is
>> matched for PSK.  Is this intentional or a bug?
>>  
>> It would seem to me that the client should make some effort to auth the
>> server given the policy. Oddly I like the behavior, but it doesn't seem
>> to make any sense or could be seen to be a security hole.
>>  
>> Bewildered,
>>  
>> peter
>> 
> 
> You have to stop and restart the ipsecc instance for it to pick up the
> config modifications.
> 

The client config hasn't changed.  I only changed and restarted the server
config.  The client is still PSK but the server was changed back to
asn1dn...




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