Re: SSL VPN

[Stephen Cotton <stephen@cotton.email>]

If you are authenticating off radius the profile the profile then only
contains the ta.key preauth key, as well as the server certs and settings.
So multiple people (or:and office) can use a single profile with their
unique credentials. I believe this may be succeptable to having the
password cached in memory though as it will auto reconnect on failure.

The default on the server setups also only allow a single active connection
per user. There is a checkbox (in the pfsense server config page) to
override this. It’s important to be congnizant of because there’s nothing
stopping someone from using the same profile and radius creds on two
devices (say a phone and computer) and the behavior they will see if just
constant disconnects and reconnects.


On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:55 AM Jasper Backer <jasper () jbacker nl> wrote:

> Just wondering, is the client export actually tied to the logged in user,
> or can every user download all other VPN profiles (which hopefully are of
> little use as credentials are likely unknown)? It used to be that way,
> would be nice if it is tied to just the logged in user.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jasper
> On 13-06-19 20:06, Matt Harris wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:59 PM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
>
> > OpenVPN in pfSense?
> >
> > We run tons of these around the world.
> >
> > Mark.
> With the client config generator package, "openvpn-client-export",
> installed, this is imho the best option for an end-user VPN. pfSense has a
> much nicer UI than OpenVPN AS, and that UI also supports other things you
> might need (like routing protocols via bird or quagga, managing the
> firewall, etc) as well. I can't see any reason to pay money for OpenVPN AS
> when you compare it to what you get for free with pfSense.  The NetGate
> pfSense appliances are quite nicely spec'd, too, if you just have cash
> burning a hole in your pocket.  It also easily ties in OpenVPN
> authentication to RADIUS or LDAP, and getting it working with Active
> Directory on the backend is trivially simple.