OpenVPN Support Forum

I have installed OpenVPN and gone through, what I believe to be, all the steps. It doesn't work yet, one problem seems to be that on server startup, before the root login prompt, OpenVPN asks for the Pass Phrase used for my client certificate. Is this normal? Second problem is that my pass phrase doesn't work. Any help resolving either of these 2 issues would be greatly appreciated.

you obviously protected the .key file with a password...

if you want your openvpn service to start automatically try to use a key without password protection.

Michael.

Thanks Michael,
I created the client key file with the command:
./build-key-pass UserName
and the first field prompt to appear is the pass phrase
I am obliged to enter the pass phrase to continue.

Is this where I am going wrong? Where can I configure openvpn so not to request a pass phrase for the client key?

to clarify the requirement:
I want to enter a password when I connect to OpenVPN from the client. But I do not want the server to prompt me for a password on startup.

I did as you suggested, I recreated the server key and executed the command to remove the need for client verification.
But the Private Key Password is being requested for the client.conf file, not the server.conf.
No password was entered during the creation of server.conf. Since nothing worked, I then re-created the client.conf without a password (build-key) but still it asks for a password.