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Re: [Openvpn-users] [repost] Problem with per-User authentication methods


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] [repost] Problem with per-User authentication methods
  • From: James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:50:06 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> * James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > The 'plugin' directive can't be used in a --client-config-dir file -- it's
> > a global directive only.  You should be getting an error message to that
> > effect in the server log:
> > 
> > OPTIONS IMPORT: reading client specific options from: ccd/blah-blah
> > Options error: option 'plugin' cannot be used in this context
> > 
> > After flagging the error in the log file, OpenVPN will essentially ignore
> > the "plugin" directive and handle the authentication as if the directive
> > wasn't there.
> 
> Indeed, that's what I observed. So, is there a way of deploying
> different authentication methods for different users?

Not unless the plugin directly supports this.

OpenVPN doesn't (yet) have the configuration capability to enable or
disable the use of a particular authentication plugin on a per-client
basis.

James


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