Re: Disconnecting a specified client from the server

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

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 10:50:59AM +0000, Peter Davis wrote:
> > [management]
> 
> Hi,
> Thanks.
> I see the "client-deny" command. Is it possible to prevent a client from connecting to the server using this command? If yes, is this blocking until the server reboots?

management API is stateless, the server process will remember nothing.

So you can deny a client *when it connects* (--management-client-auth
needs to be set), but you can't tell the OpenVPN server process "deny
this client forever".

see doc/management-notes.txt in the OpenVPN source tree.

gert
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