How to add a password to a OpenVPN server?

serverhunter_old

I've been looking for tutorials, but can only find one that explains it for the client, not the server.

Nyr

A password for what? For client authentication? Anyway, you could stop opening threads for each option you want and reading a bit instead:

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Openvpn23ManPage

JustAMacUser

You should read through the docs, it has all this detailed. You want the auth-user-pass-verify option, but you'll need a script of some sort on the server to check what the client provides. Some distros provide sample scripts in /usr/share/docs.

William

JustAMacUser said: You should read through the docs, it has all this detailed. You want the auth-user-pass-verify option, but you'll need a script of some sort on the server to check what the client provides. Some distros provide sample scripts in /usr/share/docs.

And/or load a pam/OVPN module (like Authy, Gauth) that uses it for something - else you can also use a PAM module to use linux users for OVPN auth (this was actually pretty common some years ago still).