Private Pass Key auto complete

Wraith

Evening all,

New to the boards as I really cant for the life of me get this configuration to work.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running PiVPN. This works well with all devices.

I am trying to configure a Raspberry Pi 4 with 64bit Kali Raspberry Pi OS to auto establish a connection to the PiVPN Server on power up.

The certificate works fine when manually establishing the connection. However it is the automation.

OpenVPN will ask for the "Private Pass Key" when

 root: OpenVpn file.conf

is entered.

i have tried

askpass

and

auth-pass-user

both linked to

/etc/openvpn/client/pass.txt

but neither approach works (

pass.txt

is CHMOD600).

Has anyone managed to work a solution to this, or can they point me in the direction (trawled as much of the regular sites for an answer as i can now)

Thanks.

TinCanTech

Why bother with a password protected client key that you store in plain text ?

Wraith

TinCanTech, The password key would be stored in a .secrets file (i use pass.txt just to demonstate the path to the file containing to password).

TinCanTech

You must use --askpass /path/to/password.txt