Install crts and key to iPhone via SSH?

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UncleJed
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Install crts and key to iPhone via SSH?

Post by UncleJed » Sat Dec 10, 2016 8:48 pm

Howdy,
I'm a first-time user to OpenVPN and so far I have successfully (I believe) fired up an OpenVPN server on my home network. I am now trying to install the client files to my iPhone from a cloud, but when trying to import the ovpn file the app rejects it because it can't find the other files.
I understand that there's a way to do it using iTunes, but I can't stand iTunes and was hoping there was another way. So I was wondering if I could just place the client files on the phone using SSH. The phone is jailbroken and I can browse pretty much anywhere on it. Unfortunately I couldn't find any documentation or other users with this question. My thought is that I could just put the server and client .crt files and the client .key file on the phone so that when I attempt to import the .ovpn using the front door of the app, that it might work.
Is this possible? And if so, where do the files go?

Thanks a million!

TinCanTech
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Re: Install crts and key to iPhone via SSH?

Post by TinCanTech » Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:34 pm


UncleJed
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Re: Install crts and key to iPhone via SSH?

Post by UncleJed » Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:51 pm

Thanks for the reply. I had read that one, but thought my idea was different since I don't want to install them from an email.
My thought was that if all iTunes does is take whatever files I give it and plop them somewhere, then why shouldn't I be able to do that as well?

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