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is client config required?

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 11:59 pm
by dayknight
Hello,

Just got started with openVPN and got it to work following the http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-sourc ... howto.html

Concise and well written - Got the openVPN working on CentOS and used itself to connect to it.

But now - i am looking at another direction:

1) User Auth (no client cert)
2) Using GUI Clients https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/w ... edProjects

This brings me to the question - if I am using User Auth (username and password) - do i still require to provide each client its own client.conf ? Would not the Server address and user credentials suffice?

Re: is client config required?

Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:26 am
by Mimiko
Every client can have same config file, which in fact it is mostly. The different is certificates or passwords.

To use password authentication, in client conf you must use "--auth-user-pass".