I would like to save credentials when using OpenVPN in terminal. Is this possible?
I have using Gnome's network manager OpenVPN plugin and it is throwing errors with this particular VPN but using OpenVPN via the terminal works just fine except that should there be a disconnection, OpenVPN cannot automatically reconnect because it doesn't have the credentials. So is there a way to save them, perhaps through flag when running the command:
openvpn config.ovpn 2 Answers
Add your username and password to a plain text file (eg login.file) and use the "auth-user-pass /path/to/login.file" directive to your config.ovpn file (or pass --auth-user-pass /path/to/login.file)
The format of login.file is simply
username password I found a very simple undocumented way to save credentials directly inside .ovpn file.
instead of :
auth-user-pass credentials.txt insert :
<auth-user-pass> user password </auth-user-pass> also i got a "missing external certificate" error with NordVPN, fixed (MAYBE UNSAFE) by inserting the line below into the .ovpn file:
setenv CLIENT_CERT 0 EDIT :
I was messing around to get rid of the NordVPN client :)
Here's my article if someone is interested :
