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Re: [Openvpn-users] Linux Client - Does /etc/openvpn need to exist after the tunnel is up?


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Linux Client - Does /etc/openvpn need to exist after the tunnel is up?
  • From: James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:59:53 -0700 (MST)

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, David Vernon wrote:

> /dev/rob0 wrote:
> > On Saturday 2005-December-03 06:14, David Vernon wrote:
> > 
> >>for /etc/openvpn pointing to the openvpn directory on the encrypted
> >>filesystem. As expected OpenVPN has no issues with this config. My
> >>question is, would it be OK from OpenVPNs perspective if I unmounted
> >>the filesystem once the tunnel was up? Does openvpn read config files
> >>from time to time or operate all from mem?
> > 
> > 
> > In fact there is nothing magical to openvpn about /etc/openvpn.
> 
> OK my original question must have lacked a bit of the necessary clarity.
> I was not asking if /etc/openvpn specifically was required. I was asking
> if openvpn would need to access the config files (whatever I may choose
> to name them) after the tunnel is up? Can I bring the tunnel up and then
> make all the config files and keys disappear (by, for instance,
> unmounting the filesystem they are on)? Will the instance of openvpn
> that supports the tunnel in question need access to the config files or
> keys at some later point in the life of that tunnel?

The answer to your question is yes -- you can unmount the filesystem on
which the config file and keys are stored after OpenVPN initializes, if
you use the "persist-key" option.

James


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