Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by - do not combine with async
auth plugins
as of "now"?

Also, is this issue - https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?p=83437
still present with iPhones?

-Shreyas

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 6:56 AM Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 10:44:20AM -0300, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
> > Em 09/11/2020 06:32, Olivier CALVANO escreveu:
> > > I have a problem on a recent OpenVPN installation, the server asks
> > > clients to re-authenticate every hour, whether there is activity on
> > > the tunnel or not.
> > >
> > > How can I fix this problem?
> >
> >      is this causing any problem ? Because it should not. Renegotiation
> > should just happen on the background and, despite on the logs, shouldn't
> > be noticed at all by the tunnel traffic.
>
> If you authenticate with a one-time-password setup (2FA), you need to
> enter a new password on every single key renegotiation, because the server
> will do a full re-auth.
>
> To improve on that, run the server with --auth-gen-token (with a reasonable
> token lifetime).  But do not combine with async auth plugins as of "now".
>
> gert
>
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