linux - Pass private key password to openvpn command
Problem connecting to server from Asus Router · Issue #20 Apr 30, 2016 Linux - Autostart OpenVPN in systemd (Ubuntu) - Getting Ubuntu 16.04, OpenVPN installs and initiates a service by default. If you are using Ubuntu 16.04, skip to step 10. For Ubuntu 18.04 LTS+ enable the OpenVPN service to autorun when booting: Similar in Windows. Create a file C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config\stdin.txt, insert your passphrase and append . askpass "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\stdin.txt" to your config. Note: It’s strongly recommended to set file permissions on the password file that only the OpenVPN daemon respectively service user can read this! Michael # openvpn --config client.conf --askpass Options error: --askpass fails with 'stdin': No such file or directory Options error: Please correct these errors. Use --help for more information. This patch resolves --askpass treating stdin as a file during the file access check. In turn, this leads to openvpn failing to start if this option is set to The –askpass option allows you to start OpenVPN from the command line. It will query you for a password before it daemonizes. It will query you for a password before it daemonizes. To protect a private key with a password you should omit the -nodes option when you use the openssl command line tool to manage certificates and private keys.
Any > more than we should make it soo difficult that they look for ways to > circumvent it. > Certinaly. I diverged a bit into general security, but specifically to OpenVPN, --askpass is simply giving people another way of writing their passphrase down.
2 - Without using any additional authentication method OpenVPN relies only on the verification of the client certificate by the server (and ideally verification of the server certificate by the client) for authentication of the client. This makes revoking an individual client's access a matter of either adding the client's certificate to a OpenVPN not working | Netgate Forum
Causes the openvpn to not cache the passwords of askpass or auth-user-pass directives in memory. As soon as we enter the password, the openvpn program will delete it from memory and when the password is needed again, we will have to type it again manually.
Describe the problem Every few days the container fails and ends up in a restart loop. Most of the time it will randomly start working again after a couple of days, so not sure if the problem is with the docker, NordVPN or something I am