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The openvpn-auth-pam module implements username/password
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authentication via PAM, and essentially allows any authentication
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method supported by PAM (such as LDAP, RADIUS, or Linux Shadow
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passwords) to be used with OpenVPN. While PAM supports
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username/password authentication, this can be combined with X509
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certificates to provide two indepedent levels of authentication.
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This module uses a split privilege execution model which will
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function even if you drop openvpn daemon privileges using the user,
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group, or chroot directives.
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To build openvpn-auth-pam, you will need to have the pam-devel
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Build with the "make" command. The module will be named
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To use this plugin module, add to your OpenVPN config file:
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plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so service-type
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The required service-type parameter corresponds to
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the PAM service definition file usually found
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This plugin also supports the usage of a list of name/value
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pairs to answer PAM module queries.
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plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so "login login USERNAME password PASSWORD"
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tells auth-pam to (a) use the "login" PAM module, (b) answer a
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"login" query with the username given by the OpenVPN client, and
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(c) answer a "password" query with the password given by the
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OpenVPN client. This provides flexibility in dealing with the different
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types of query strings which different PAM modules might generate.
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For example, suppose you were using a PAM module called
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"test" which queried for "name" rather than "login":
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plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so "test name USERNAME password PASSWORD"
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While "USERNAME" "COMMONNAME" and "PASSWORD" are special strings which substitute
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to client-supplied values, it is also possible to name literal values
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to use as PAM module query responses. For example, suppose that the
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login module queried for a third parameter, "domain" which
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is to be answered with the constant value "mydomain.com":
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plugin openvpn-auth-pam.so "login login USERNAME password PASSWORD domain mydomain.com"
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The following OpenVPN directives can also influence
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the operation of this plugin:
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client-cert-not-required
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username-as-common-name
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Run OpenVPN with --verb 7 or higher to get debugging output from
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this plugin, including the list of queries presented by the
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underlying PAM module. This is a useful debugging tool to figure
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out which queries a given PAM module is making, so that you can
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craft the appropriate plugin directive to answer it.
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This module will only work on *nix systems which support PAM,