-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi,
On Monday, 17 June 2024 at 21:33, Mika Laitio <lam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, this is my first time in this list. > > This may be too simple a question, but I did not find a clear answer when > googling and reading the README.quickstart.md. All the examples I found were > more concentrated for the server side setup. > > So I would need to be connected to an openvpn server not hosted by me and the > owner of the server asked me to send my credentials for the server key. Your "owner of the server" must clarify "send my credentials". > At the moment I do not know the name of the server, ca-files of it or > anything. I believe that once I send my public key, he can then generate the > configuration file for me that I can use to connect to the server. (.opni) > > Can I just use openssl to generate a public-private key pair and then just > send the generated public key for the openvpn server maintainer or do I need > to use the easyrsa3/easyrsa to generate the keys that openvpn can use? If I > need/can use the easyrsa3 to do that, are there any examples/docs for the > commands I need to use? You can do this with OpenSSL but it is not easy. You can do this with Easy-RSA and it is easy. Install Easy-RSA then use the following commands: $ easyrsa init-pki $ easyrsa gen-req <NAME> If you prefer, you can make this even easier by not protecting your private key with a password: $ easyrsa gen-req <NAME> nopass Which ever method you prefer, you then send the certificate signing request [CSR] to the server owner. The CSR can be found in your Easy-RSA PKI folder as: pki/reqs/<NAME>.req That is all you can do until the server owner sends you back your signed certificate and config file. Regards tct -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: ProtonMail wsBzBAEBCAAnBYJmcK50CZBPl5z2a5C4nRYhBAm8PURno41yecVVVU+XnPZr kLidAADQHggAqTt/HQVdlVjklq7WAUnBIVnr31MfuTuP7OtdfijQpL453vhC qT4fDVdeDE6EQJ/82WrSjwf8NZCvKhn2Kh07Ef7BvgT8kAIEYT9vXBoSsUoA DCSksmdeLHJbtBihZIg04LpXxhF2NaBTVt3Oxm5QHUnNIUwS0gmxHSGEsJ3S mL5q4fyJJnrmz3dmyCFZc5ixa6eHe2CKHrRluzQIpcx4mHOF4Ieuv6Lfka3A oYA2zR63jtZj+E3XyhB/ZGkhBAkde5y1J3aGQuTBu38iIxBzUNVHqeP9JS/7 /Zjy2Kma8skFAFL09w2iTwUEgIiUCbPGjfacAPZWQODprUyuzLjX/g== =Gw4Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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