Re: Limit the number of users based on the key

Jochen Bern <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openvpn.user
Organization Binect GmbH
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09.01.24 12:33, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote:
> An employee in the supervision department shares a key with someone
> outside the company, and you want to block access to the server
> through that key. You must revoke the certificate of the supervision
> department. If each department has its own key, then [...]
... then a normal OpenVPN server will not ever allow more than one 
employee of each department to be connected to the VPN at the same time.

If *that* matches your requirements, please feel free to continue 
disregarding the dozens of times this list has told you that You Do Not 
Want To Do That™.

(Disclaimer: Talking about "key"s as in "client privkey+cert" here. 
Per-department *secrets* for HMAC auth are a different beast.)

Kind regards,
-- 
Jochen Bern
Systemingenieur

Binect GmbH

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