August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
364 pages
7h 35m
English
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Basic production-level configuration files
We extend the previous client and server configuration files to use the newly created tls-auth key. We do this by adding a line to the configuration file movpn-04-01-server.conf, as well as the second security-enhancing option:
proto udp port 1194 dev tun server 10.200.0.0 255.255.255.0 topology subnet persist-key persist-tun keepalive 10 60 remote-cert-tls client tls-auth /etc/openvpn/movpn/ta.key 0 dh /etc/openvpn/movpn/dh2048.pem ca /etc/openvpn/movpn/movpn-ca.crt cert /etc/openvpn/movpn/server.crt key /etc/openvpn/movpn/server.key user nobody group nobody verb 3 daemon log-append /var/log/openvpn.log
Note
Note that the order of the statements in this configuration file is random. The remote-cert-tls ...
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