Re: Two questions about key generation for clients

tincantech via Openvpn-users <[email protected]>
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Hi,

On Sunday, January 21st, 2024 at 1:42 PM, Bo Berglund <[email protected]> wrote:


<snip>

> I looked around and found this File:
> 
> /lib/systemd/system/[email protected]

That is the openvpn server unit file.

<snip>

> Can I edit this file and remove the item --suppress-timestamps to possibly
> enable the timestamps? And remove the machine-readable-output item in the actual
> service conf file?
> Will that result in human-readable timestamps?

The recommended method is to copy the file to /etc/systemd/system.
Then rename it to openvpn-server@${YOUR_SERVER_CONF_FILE_NAME}.service
Then make your changes.

"YOUR_SERVER_CONF_FILE_NAME" does not include the .conf file extension.

Starting/stopping etc will then use the new file for that specific server and not
change the upstream file.  This means that your changes will not be over-written by
package updates.


> And why is there a --suppress-timestamps item in the
> /lib/systemd/system/[email protected] file to begin with?

Openvpn disables built-in timestamps and relies on systemd for time stamps.

Regards
tct
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