Yes, you can use username and password. In this tutorial, the strongSwan server authenticates with a certificate, and the various clients authenticate with a user name and password:
http://xpu.ca/strongswan-ubuntu/ This procedure was tested on an Amazon EC2 t2.micro instance running Ubuntu 16.04. The version of the strongSwan package installed was 5.3.5-1ubuntu3. On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 3:11 PM, robert k Wild <robertkw...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all, > > im trying to create an ikev2 server but this how-to guide says i need to > create certs for the server and client, can i just not use normal username > and password for authentication? > > https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/IPSEC_vpn_with_CentOS_7.html > > many thanks, > > rob > > -- > Regards, > > Robert K Wild. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.strongswan.org > https://lists.strongswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.strongswan.org https://lists.strongswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users