Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:01:11 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Dave B <g8kbvdave@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help/advice request please. Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3QJNFsdUpMBSumKumhLYsE8NxrabWHiAN6pcG_GNs8dA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <564A4CE3.9663.851BBC@g8kbvdave.googlemail.com> References: <564A4CE3.9663.851BBC@g8kbvdave.googlemail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Dave B <g8kbvdave@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p3 > > Trying to figure out how to get openvpn setup, ultimately for a small > number of > traveling client machines (Linux and Windows) all owned by myself, for my > own > personal use. > > Is there any (in plain english) "how-to's" out there, that actually work? > > In particular, in regards to creating a self-signed CA (and the other > needed) > certificates, working at the command line. > > I'm falling over with the (undocumented) various user input data fields. > For example, it's taken me a full week, to find out that my country code > is not > UK, or 44, but GB! > That's ISO thing, not a ssl thing per se. But there is no guidance as to what the other field values should (or should > not) be. Such as region/state etc. > Using CA.pl and openssl.cnf has always seemed pretty straight-forward to me at least as far as anything ssl is straight-forward. CA.pl has a decent man page and openssl.cnf has a lot of comments. It's just a good start, not the complete answer. -- Adam
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