container-openvpn/docs/clients.md

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# Advanced Client Management
## Client Configuration Mode
The [`ovpn_getclient`](/bin/ovpn_getclient) can produce two different versions of the configuration.
1. combined (default): All needed configuration and cryptographic material is in one file (Use "combined-save" to write the configuration file in the same path as the separated parameter does).
2. separated: Separated files.
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Note that some client software might be picky about which configuration format it accepts.
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## Client List
See an overview of the configured clients, including revocation and expiration status:
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docker run --rm -it -v $OVPN_DATA:/etc/openvpn kylemanna/openvpn ovpn_listclients
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The output is generated using `openssl verify`. Error codes from the verification process different from `X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED` or `X509_V_ERR_CERT_REVOKED` will show the status `INVALID`.
## Batch Mode
If you have more than a few clients, you will want to generate and update your client configuration in batch. For this task the script [`ovpn_getclient_all`](/bin/ovpn_getclient_all) was written, which writes out the configuration for each client to a separate directory called `clients/$cn`.
Execute the following to generate the configuration for all clients:
docker run --rm -it -v $OVPN_DATA:/etc/openvpn --volume /tmp/openvpn_clients:/etc/openvpn/clients kylemanna/openvpn ovpn_getclient_all
After doing so, you will find the following files in each of the `$cn` directories:
ca.crt
$cn-combined.ovpn # Combined configuration file format. If your client recognices this file then only this file is needed.
$cn.ovpn # Separated configuration. This configuration file requires the other files ca.crt dh.pem $cn.crt $cn.key ta.key
$cn.crt
$cn.key
ta.key
## Revoking Client Certificates
Revoke `client1`'s certificate and generate the certificate revocation list (CRL) using [`ovpn_revokeclient`](/bin/ovpn_revokeclient) script :
docker run --rm -it -v $OVPN_DATA:/etc/openvpn kylemanna/openvpn ovpn_revokeclient client1
The OpenVPN server will read this change every time a client connects (no need to restart server) and deny clients access using revoked certificates.
You can optionally pass `remove` as second parameter to ovpn_revokeclient to remove the corresponding crt, key and req files :
docker run --rm -it -v $OVPN_DATA:/etc/openvpn kylemanna/openvpn ovpn_revokeclient client1 remove