Re: Limit the number of users based on the key

Peter Davis via Openvpn-users <[email protected]>
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>On Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 at 11:25 AM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote:


> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 07:53:35AM +0000, Peter Davis wrote:
> 
> > True, but I don't want to create a key for each employee in the department.
> 
> 
> Abandon that thought. We've been here before: you need unique keys per
> user, everything else will just make your life painful and miserable.
> 
> gert
> --
> "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
> feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted
> it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
> Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
> 
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected]


Hi,
If each user has their own key, then there should be a Client.conf file for each user, which itself contains a unique IP address, a unique port and a unique TUN. For example, for 100 users, there are 100 configuration files, 100 IP addresses, 100 open ports and 100 TUNs.
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