Re: [Openvpn-users] Re: User-IP pair

[Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz <dlucio@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a way to tell OVPN that ipp files is not afile, maybe a LDAP source?

Regards,

LD

Le Jeudi 05 Mai 2005 15:31, James Yonan a écrit :
> On Thu, 5 May 2005, John E. Peterson wrote:
> > That was actually and interesting question because I think it answers
> > something that I noticed.  IP addresses are tied to certificates.  What
> > seems to be wierd is that IP's seem to be created and tied in by the
> > order the certs are logged in first time, NOT the number itself.
> >
> > What I have noticed for instance is if users log in first time in this
> > order:
> >
> > cert02    --->  IP01
> > cert04    --->  IP02
> > cert01    --->  IP03
> > cert03    --->  IP04
> >
> > that IP's are generated and "locked" in that order.
>
> Right, that's the designed behavior.  IP addresses are tied to certs, and
> certs can be fully alphabetic -- they don't need to have embedded numbers
> in their common names.  So OpenVPN allocates IP addresses in the order of
> connection, not by extracting any embedded number in the common name.
>
> > In MY case, IP's then end up being locked to a particular workstation.
> > (which 99% of the time is a particular user).  Now, the question becomes,
> > why do you want to assign IP's by USER?  I happen to be running on a
> > Windows Domain, so no matter what IP someone is from they are restricted
> > by their login.
>
> If you are using user/pass auth (with or without certs), you can use the
> "username-as-common-name" flag on the server to have OpenVPN use the
> username rather than the common name as its "name" for the connection.
>
> James
>
> > JP
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Charles Duffy" <cduffy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:58 PM
> > Subject: [Openvpn-users] Re: User-IP pair
> >
> > > On Wed, 04 May 2005 19:34:58 -0500, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
> > >> Is it a way to make OpenVPN to assign a IP to a particular User no
> > >> matters
> > >> on what workstation it's logged?
> > >
> > > Are certificates specific to the workstations or carried around by the
> > > users (ie. on a USB key)? If the latter, it's easy -- use a
> > > client-config-dir with config files specifying the IP to use, and there
> > > you are. (OTOH, if your goal is to trace back from an IP to the user
> > > who's logged on, you can dynamically add DNS entries as part of your
> > > learn-address scripts, which is what I do; the IPs may vary, but the
> > > addresses stay the same). Otherwise, you can use
> > > username-as-common-name to have the client-config-dir indexed by
> > > usernames; or you can have a client-connect script that looks at the
> > > "username" variable to decide what IP to assign.
> > >
> > > So, yes -- there are several ways to do this.
> > >
> > >
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