Creating OpenVPN User Accounts on Ubuntu Server

jeremies.au

Hello,

I have installed an OpenVPN server on a research cloud server and want to create accounts for different users who will be accessing my server.

The installation process went well and the OpenVPN server is up and running, but I am unable to connect to the server using the Windows OpenVPN GUI client. I created the certificates for the server and client and followed the instructions here for Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/serverguide/openvpn.html.

However, I don't know which username and password to enter in the OpenVPN GUI dialog box. Would it be possible to know how to create different accounts and then how to access them in the OpenVPN client?

In fact, first I don't know where to retrieve the username and password, and second, I'm not sure my server is configured properly. So once I'll fix the issue of knowing the username and password, I should be able to determine if there are other problems.

Thanks,
Jeremie

jeremies.au

Hi,

Thanks for your quick reply. I will look at that and post any question I will encounter.

Thanks again

jeremies.au

Just one quick question: Where and how do I configure my OpenVPN server to authenticate the user-entered username and password against some config file containing the usernames & passwords authorized to login? Do I create some particular file containing a list of username/password pairs to authenticate against? If so, where do I put that file and how do I tell my OpenVPN server to look for that logins file?

I'd like something quite simple where I can just create a .config or whatever file containing user/pass pairs and then in /etc/openvpn/server.conf I have a directive that indicates where the logins file is and to check the username/password entered by the user in the GUI form against that file. Is it possible? Do I need to play around with the OpenVPN authentication plugins to validate the users?

Any help or hints would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks again!
Jeremie