On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:51, Tom Nielsen wrote:
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 19:02, Graham Smith wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:20, Tom Nielsen wrote:
I managed to get my home connected to my office computer via openvpn. My problem is that when I tried to use the --secret key command, I get an error saying it can't find the key and won't connect.
Now, I generated the key and have one on my home system and copied the other to the office. Both are named static.key and in my home.conf, I have it set at /home/tom/openvpn/static.key. But the open vpn won't find it even though I have --secret key on my command line.
Where the hell is the static.key supposed to go? I followed the directions in the man page (which was really nice), but with no success.
Any thoughts?
Tom
In my configs for openvpn all my config scrips are located in /etc/openvpn as well as the keys. The /etc/openvpn directory is only readable by root. I suggest as a security point you do similiar.
Now in the config script you have to enter the path for the where your key file is located. e.g.
secret /etc/openvpn/static.key
I hope that helps, if not give me a yell.
When I try to connect to my office, does my home config try to read the static.key located at home or the office?
Tom
There is really not much to it to get a static key to work. The key MUST be the same at both the server and client ( office / home). Then all you is add the path of where the key is installed in both your config scripts. The office utilises the key at the office and compares it with the one sent from your home. Firstly what error message do you get. Secondly can you send me both your server and client config scripts. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------