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Re: [Openvpn-users] Multi Client with no authentication


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Multi Client with no authentication
  • From: Schlomo Schapiro <openvpn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:57:53 +0100 (CET)

Hi,

why not use the sample certs provided with openvpn ? If you just don't 
want to setup your own CA and stuff, they will work fine for you.

Schlomo

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, James Yonan wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Maurizio de Pascale wrote:
> 
> > Hi everybody,
> > we want to setup a multi client vpn but don't want to bother with the 
> > PKI stuff:
> > the vpn server is already accessible only through ssh-port-forwarding so 
> > we just need plain vpn.
> > The single-client single-server configuration works perfectly (even with 
> > no static key...just remote, dev tun and ifconfig) but the multi-client 
> > mode seems to require PKI :(
> > 
> > Is it possible to skip authentication in multi client mode with current 
> > version of openvpn?
> 
> Multi client mode requires TLS for initial connection establishment,
> however you can turn off encryption/authentication on the forwarded tunnel
> packets if security is not important to you:
> 
>   cipher none
>   auth none
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Regards,
Schlomo

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