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| It is now time to scp the key, certificate, and authority from the router to your home device: | It is now time to scp the key, certificate, and authority from the router to your home device: |
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| scp /etc/easy-rsa/pki/ca.crt /etc/easy-rsa/pki/private/clientname.key /etc/easy-rsa/pki/issued/clientname.crt root@10.10.10.100: | scp /etc/easy-rsa/pki/ca.crt root@10.10.10.100: |
| | scp /etc/easy-rsa/pki/private/clientname.key root@10.10.10.100: |
| | scp /etc/easy-rsa/pki/issued/clientname.crt root@10.10.10.100: |
| | scp /etc/easy-rsa/pki/ta.key root@10.10.10.100: |
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| Obviously, I am using an example home subnet here (10.10.10.0), so change that address to match your workstation. Once you have all three of those files, create a directory on the client workstation that intends to connect to the vpn server. After you create that directory and place these files in it, you need to create a connect-to-vpn.ovpn file that openvpn will use to connect to the vpn server. | Obviously, I am using an example home subnet here (10.10.10.0), so change that address to match your workstation. Once you have all three of those files, create a directory on the client workstation that intends to connect to the vpn server. After you create that directory and place these files in it, you need to create a connect-to-vpn.ovpn file that openvpn will use to connect to the vpn server. |
| Thanks to Jason Schaefer and Geoff Chesshire from [[http://schaeferconsulting.com|Schaefer IT Consulting]]. I am very grateful for their help with all of this. I also found the source documentation, [[https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/openvpn/basic|OpenWrt OpenVPN basic]], to be particularly helpful, especially when/if commands and config setups change in easy-rsa/openvpn. | Thanks to Jason Schaefer and Geoff Chesshire from [[http://schaeferconsulting.com|Schaefer IT Consulting]]. I am very grateful for their help with all of this. I also found the source documentation, [[https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/openvpn/basic|OpenWrt OpenVPN basic]], to be particularly helpful, especially when/if commands and config setups change in easy-rsa/openvpn. |
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