keypairs and certificates username + password With TLS, the server always has its own key, an issued certificate, and the CA certificate; all clients must have a copy of this CA certificate as well. Normally I use standard Linux distributions as NAS systems, but in this case it had to be a real NAS (size and price was more important than performance) and it was not at my place –> so I chose a Synology DS214se. Note that the OpenVPN software can be configured to either work as the server or the client. from OpenVPN option "--server NETWORK NETMASK" # p2p= 10.8.0.1 # Allows the plugin to overwrite the client config in client config file directory, # default is true overwriteccfiles= true # Allows the plugin to use auth control files if OpenVPN (>= 2.1 rc8) provides them. The OpenVPN feature you're looking for, which will allow the server to authenticate clients based on both their certificate and a credential, is auth-user-pass-verify. The command below will generate the client’s private key and it’s Certificate Signing Request (CSR). ca.key : La clé de ce certificat, sans doute le fichier le plus important.
Set Type to Certificate, choose the Certificate file and the Key file for your certificate, and enter the Password. user password Create OpenVPN config that named like USERNAME.ovpn: Note that client-cert-not-required will not obviate the need for a server certificate, so a client connecting to a server which uses client-cert-not-required may remove the cert and key directives from the client configuration file, but not the ca directive, because it is necessary for the client to verify the server certificate. Il permet de signer les certificats des clients.
Client certificate's Common Name is used as username during authentication process. Server Configuration The OpenVPN Server Mode allows selecting a choice between requiring Certificates, User Authentication, or both. The server certificate is used for encrypting SSL VPN traffic and will be used for authentication. But I always need to import configuration and it has ca certificate, I enabled username and password authentication. How can I connect openvpn without certificate and configuration but only username and password. The file auth.cfg holds your username/password combination. Configure a Synology NAS as OpenVPN client with certificate authentication (and make it stable) March 8, 2014. This pull request fixes #55. If auth-user-pass is enabled for OpenVPN client, the password is ignored by server, and username recieved from the client is used instead of the Common Name. The OpenVPN Server Mode allows selecting a choice between requiring Certificates, User Authentication, or both.