Openvpn Does Server Generate Keys For Clients

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OpenVPN is an awesome Open Source VPN package, the 2.0 versions are solid, reliable and secure.Edoceo has been providing VPN services and commerical support for this product since late 2003.It is fully functional and stable on Apple, Linux and Windows platforms, ready for the enterprise.

OpenVPN Server

OpenVPN 2.0 expands on the capabilities of OpenVPN 1.x by offering a scalable client/server mode, allowing multiple clients to connect to a single OpenVPN server process over a single TCP or UDP port. OpenVPN 2.3 includes a large number of improvements, including full IPv6 support and PolarSSL support.

Generating OpenVPN keys using Easy RSA. It is possible to generate your certificates on the router itself if you don't have access to a Linux machine, or if you don't have a Windows client installed with Easy-RSA. Easy-RSA is a simple to use environment that is bundled with OpenVPN, and has been included in Asuswrt-Merlin. Encrypted communication between client and server will occur over UDP port 1194, the default OpenVPN port. Generate a static key: openvpn -genkey -secret static.key Copy the static key to both client and server, over a pre-existing secure channel. Generate the server and client certificates and their respective keys. Go to the OpenVPN Community Downloads page. Select the Windows Installer (.exe) file for the Windows OS version that you're running.

Here's a complete OpenVPN Server configuration file.It creates a VPN Gateway device that allows clients on the VPN to access machines on the internal side subnet.For an explanation of all the options please see the OpenVPN Howto Guide.

Configuring OpenVPN Server

If this is the first OpenVPN server, or a fresh install the necessary Certificates must be created.The example below creates a certificate for the server, two clients as well as the tls-auth and diffe-hellman files.

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Copy the necessary files to the OpenVPN configuration directory.

And make the tls-auth key.

The local network devices 10.65.0.0/24 as the Internal or Office network and 10.65.76.0/24 as the VPN subnet.

The options above should be changed to match the readers environment.Most notably the DHCP Push options should be set to reasonable values.

OpenVPN Concentrator

Use the above Server configuration but add the following.This will let other clients see each other.

OpenVPN Client Configuration

The current OpenVPN 2.1 clients have worked flawlessly for us since RC3.We're currently running various flavours of the 2.1 RC installs, RC3 through RC13.Here is a client for the above configuration

OpenVPN Clients on Apple

Mac OS X clients can use the same configuration as Linux clients.The cd parameter will need to be modified. Generate ssh-2 rsa key mac free.

OpenVPN Client on Microsoft Windows

Use the same configuration as above but comment out the cd, group and user parameters.

See Also

ChangeLog

  • 21 Jul 2010 - More updates for OpenVPN operation /djb
  • 04 Sep 2008 - Updated to include Clients /djb
  • 10 Oct 2007 - Updated the client configs, fixed typos
  • 07 Nov 2005 - Created /djb
Hello,
I installed OpenVPN on a Ubuntu machine, and generated certificates to allow another Linux client to connect. Verified it's working, and the client is forced to use the VPN tunnel.
In the example I followed, the server certs (including the DH pem file) were moved to /etc/openvpn. Client certs were moved elsewhere.
Now that it's working I'd like to generate certificates to allow me to add additional clients. I tried this by going to /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa and running 'build-key clientname'. I received a message about needing to source vars and .clean-all first. So I ran these commands (knowing that the certificates in the keys folder had already been moved out). Then I tried to generate the client certs again. This time I received a message about missing the CA certs and the private key. I then moved ca.* & dh1024.pem back over to the keys folder and tried again. Now I get a message 'Unable to load CA Private Key 140431349081752:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:701:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY

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Keys are still generating, but I'm guessing they're not valid. In order to generate additional client keys, do I need to re-generate server cert, CAs, and DH Keys? Or am I missing something else?
Thank you!
-bk