From: Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: 39660@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39660: openvpn-client-service does not support auth-user-pass
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:43:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86pnec9cs5.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
Hello,
I recently bought a vpn service from expressvpn. They have a closed
source app to connect, but of course we do not want to use that.
Luckily, they allow a manual connection via openvpn. I downloaded
their script to manually connect. It looks like they require all
manual connections to authenticate via a username and password.
Their support team told me that the manually connection must
authenticate via a username and password. They do not support any
other manual connection. Guix's openvpn-client-service does not
support authenticating via a username and password.
According to this forum thread
(https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=11342), I was able to
manually connect to expressvpn. via "sudo expressvpn
my_expressvpn_<countryname>.ovpn". by changing
"auth-user-pass" to "auth-user-pass login.conf".
login.conf looks like
#+BEGIN_SRC text
username
password
#+END_SRC
The express vpn file that I downloaded looks like this:
#+BEGIN_SRC text
dev tun
fast-io
persist-key
persist-tun
nobind
remote someaddress.expressnetw.com 1195
remote-random
pull
comp-lzo no
tls-client
verify-x509-name Server name-prefix
ns-cert-type server
key-direction 1
route-method exe
route-delay 2
tun-mtu 1500
fragment 1300
mssfix 1200
verb 3
cipher AES-256-CBC
keysize 256
auth SHA512
sndbuf 524288
rcvbuf 524288
auth-user-pass login.conf
<cert>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
secret info
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</cert>
<key>
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
secret info
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
</key>
<tls-auth>
#
# 2048 bit OpenVPN static key
#
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
secret info
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----
</tls-auth>
<ca>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
secret info
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</ca>
#+END_SRC
A solution would be to modify our current openvpn-client-service to
allow authentication via a username and password, or to supply a
configuration file.
Also it looks like expressvpn may one day move to wireguard:
https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/expressvpn-wireguard-update/
I hope this helps!
Thanks,
Joshua
next reply other threads:[~2020-02-18 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-18 14:43 Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2020-02-19 3:14 ` bug#39660: openvpn-client-service does not support auth-user-pass Julien Lepiller
2020-02-21 17:10 ` Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-02-21 17:27 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-02-23 19:33 ` bug#39660: (no subject) Joshua Branson
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