OpenVPN 2 Cookbook by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Packt Publishing

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In the following section, we'll see some details about how a password can be specified and can be passed from the server to the auth-user-pass-verify script.

Specifying the username and password in a file on the client

OpenVPN has the option to specify the username and password in a file on the client. For this, OpenVPN needs to be compiled with a special flag. Normally, this flag is not enabled, and hence when auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/cookbook/password-file is specified, the OpenVPN client refuses to start the following:

… Sorry, 'Auth' password cannot be read from a file … Exiting

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