Remember login credentials

levseltzer

Is there a way in Windows 7 to tell OpenVPN to remember the username and password for a particular VPN? OpenVPN remembers the IP, but I am asked for the username and password each time, which is very inconvenient. I would like to have the whole connection process automated so that OpenVPN can connected me to the VPN when I start windows.

Thank you.

janjust

which username/password do you mean? for a certificate or is your setup based on an 'auth-user-pass' setup? In the latter case the openvpn 2.2 installer *should* allow you to store the username+password in a file using
auth-user-pass <path-to-file>

levseltzer

I start open VPN
I type in the IP address given to me by the hosting company
I click connect
After a few moments I am asked for the username and password
I enter them, tick remember password during this connection and click login
I'll connect without a problem.
But after disconnecting (or rebooting) I have to enter the username and password again.
I want this to be more automated.
How can I do it?

janjust

I enter them, tick remember password during this connection and click login

AFAIK this is not an option that is provided by OpenVPN - thus, it would be a ISP-specific setting that I know nothing about. What does your client config file look like?

levseltzer

The profile provided for me by the network host is below.
The certificates have been deleted from this forum post for security reasons.

# Automatically generated OpenVPN client config file
# Generated on Tue Aug 16 09:28:27 2011 by cust-vpn1.hspheredns.com
# Note: this config file contains inline private keys
#       and therefore should be kept confidential!
# Note: this configuration is user-locked to the username below
# OVPN_ACCESS_SERVER_USERNAME=webuilder
# Define the profile name of this particular configuration file
# OVPN_ACCESS_SERVER_PROFILE=webuilder@67.(CUT)
# OVPN_ACCESS_SERVER_WSHOST=(CUT)
# OVPN_ACCESS_SERVER_WEB_CA_BUNDLE_START
# -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
# (CUT)
# -----END CERTIFICATE-----
# OVPN_ACCESS_SERVER_WEB_CA_BUNDLE_STOP
# OVPN_ACCESS_SERVER_IS_OPENVPN_WEB_CA=1
# OVPN_ACCESS_SERVER_ORGANIZATION=OpenVPN Technologies, Inc.
client
setenv SERVER_POLL_TIMEOUT 4
nobind
remote (CUT)  1194 udp
remote (CUT) 443 tcp
dev tun
dev-type tun
ns-cert-type server
reneg-sec 604800
sndbuf 100000
rcvbuf 100000
auth-user-pass
auth-retry interact
# NOTE: LZO commands are pushed by the Access Server at connect time.
# NOTE: The below line doesn't disable LZO.
comp-lzo no
verb 3

<ca>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
# (CUT)
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</ca>

<cert>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
# (CUT)
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</cert>

<key>
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
# (CUT)
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
</key>

key-direction 1
<tls-auth>
#
# 2048 bit OpenVPN static key (Server Agent)
#
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
# (CUT)
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----
</tls-auth>

# -----BEGIN RSA SIGNATURE-----
# (CUT)
# -----END RSA SIGNATURE-----

janjust

this is an OpenVPN Access Server question; I'm moving the question to the appropriate forum. Sorry but I cannot help you with this.