Re: Limit the number of users based on the key

On 11.01.24 20:35, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 at 11:25 AM, Gert Doering
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> 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.

Please specify whether you're talking about the server or the client 
side setup; you're mostly wrong either way, but for different reasons.

Unless you're setting up the most unused VPN solution ever, though, you 
*do* need separate cert+privkey pairs for every *device* connecting to 
the VPN.

Kind regards,
-- 
Jochen Bern
Systemingenieur

Binect GmbH

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