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Posted: **Sun Jul 16, 2023 8:39 pm**

Hey all I have been researching how to go about doing this but I have not really found anything on it.

What I am trying to do is, use SSH luci, get a list of all my OpenVPN instances:

And be able to enable anyone of them by their Name.

So far the only ssh command(s) I have found to list my OpenVPN instances are:

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uci show openvpn

Which produces an output like this:

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......[more output here]....
openvpn.sample_client.cert='/etc/openvpn/client.crt'
openvpn.sample_client.key='/etc/openvpn/client.key'
openvpn.sample_client.verb='3'
openvpn.test0=openvpn
openvpn.test0.config='/etc/openvpn/test0.ovpn'
openvpn.test0.enabled='1'
openvpn.test1=openvpn
openvpn.test1.config='/etc/openvpn/test1.ovpn'

And

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tail /etc/config/openvpn

Which produces an output like this:

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option key '/etc/openvpn/client.key'
option verb '3'

config openvpn 'test0'
        option config '/etc/openvpn/test0.ovpn'
        option enabled '1'

config openvpn 'test1'
        option config '/etc/openvpn/test1.ovpn'

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lsof /usr/sbin/openvpn

Which produces an output like this:

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COMMAND     PID   USER    FD   TYPE   DEVICE   SIZE/OFF   NODE     NAME
openvpn   28722   root   txt    REG     0,16     450687   250828   /usr/sbin/openvpn

Which would just be nice if I can use grep to just get the names and it's PID from the above ssh commands instead of getting all that other data along with it.

Ideally I would like the output to be like this (instance name, enabled/disabled and PID):

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test0 enabled  28722
test1 disabled

And I know that using:

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/etc/init.d/openvpn stop

or

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kill -9 <PID>

to stop the current enabled running instance and

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/etc/init.d/openvpn start

to start the current enabled running instance.

Other than that I can not seem to find the proper way of enabling and disabling an OpenVPN instance by it's name or PID.

Any help would be great!

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OpenVPN using Luci (OpenWRT) ssh commands to get instances and enable/disable them

OpenVPN using Luci (OpenWRT) ssh commands to get instances and enable/disable them