Openvpn key problem ESXI

General questions
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Hello

I saw a lot of videos that I need to configure OPENVPN

and I knew that the key has to be match which means I have the copy the key from Vyos machine to the other router because I’m using ESXI VMware

I really need to know how to do that I mean the key that has to be match on both Vyos machine on ESXI

Best Regards

2

Hi
you can find keys in config/auth directory
for example

[email protected]:~$ ls -la /config/auth/
total 12
drwxrwsr-x 2 root vyattacfg 4096 Oct 21 18:27 .
drwxrwsr-x 9 root vyattacfg 4096 Oct 19 21:40 ..
-rw------- 1 root vyattacfg  636 Oct 21 18:27 foo.key

You can use “scp” to copy it to another vm or use “cat” and copy all lines from key file.

[email protected]:~$ sudo cat /config/auth/foo.key 
#
# 2048 bit OpenVPN static key
#
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
8e056f1757374c53222c0ef0260401b1
...
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----

On another node “touch” that file and paste lines from that .key file

sudo touch /config/auth/foo.key
sudo nano /config/auth/foo.key

And save it.

3

Thanks for answer but I can’ use SUDO command !

4

Now I could copy the line from the key but can you please tell me with some details how to copy them and past them to the other machine

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[quote=“Viacheslav, post:2, topic:6062”]
On another node “touch” that file and paste lines from that .key file

sudo nano /config/auth/foo.key

nano - It’s a text editor
Paste the contents of the key
And press “ctrl+x” and “y” for saving file

6

Ok great now it’s working the last question how can I delete a key that I’ve already generated

Thanks man

7

Thanks I’ve already found it

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You can re-generate new key

vyos@r4-roll:~$ generate openvpn key foo.key
Generating OpenVPN key to /config/auth/foo.key
Your new local OpenVPN key has been generated

Or delete

sudo rm /config/auth/foo.key

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