Re: Limit the number of users based on the key

Gert Doering <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openvpn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 10:25:13AM +0000, Peter Davis wrote:
> 1- Assuming that a user shares his\her username and password with
> others in addition to the keys, then using --auth-user-pass, can
> two users with the same username and password connect to the server
> at the same time?

No, because OpenVPN will not (unless told otherwise) permit two logins
with the same client key+cert at the same time.

> 2- One server for all departments.

For one server there can only be one server key, so the question "one key per
department" becomes moot.

gert

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