openvpn?

[Tillman Hodgson]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:11:10PM -0500, Shawn wrote:
> I have been attempting to get open vpn working on my freebsd 4.11 Alpha 
> machine. SO Far I have done the following..
> 
> I did the make install  for /usr/ports/security/openvpn/
> 
> Where is uses SSL Im trying to understand the config file for 
> /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf After an attempted figure  change I try to generate 
> the keys..
> 
> I  create a master certificate authority certificate/private-key
> 
> *openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout shawng-ca.key -out shawng-ca.crt 
> -days 3650*

I might be missing something, but why are you using openssl directly? If
you just want shared keys,
`openvpn --secret /path/to/where/you/want/private/key --genkey` is
probably all you need to do.

-T


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