Hi, On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 05:02:59PM +0000, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote: > I have generated server keys and I have two questions for generating client > keys: > 1- I used the following two commands to generate keys for clients: > > # ./easyrsa gen-req <client name> nopass > # ./easyrsa sign-req client <client name> > > In the first command, I see the following message: > > Common Name (eg: your user, host or server name) [client name]: > > I just hit the enter key and the key was generated. I repeated the same thing > for the second client and just changed the name of the client. > Now, two clients should be able to connect to the OpenVPN server > simultaneously. Am I right?
Yes.
> 2- Are ca.key and ta.key the same for all clients?
ca.key must never leave the signing machine.
ca.*crt* is the same for all clients.
ta.key is for --tls-auth, and by definition, needs to be the same for
all clients.
gert
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