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      thekow
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      Hi! Has anyone got a good guide for AWS and RW pfsense openvpn configuration?
      I am an openvpn newbie! I followed a guide on the web and it ended up killing my ec2 because the openvpn stopped at boot to ask for a auth password. I started from scratch but there is a few different guides and methods so I am wondering which is the best.

      The one I did ended up following server certs and client certs and a user and pass in the openvpn client and adding a local user on pfsense. I think the issue come when i started a second client.

      What I need is people from the net (up to about 10) to be able to login on via openvpn to the lan net to a single server. I had it working until i rebooted and it asked for a pass.
      I guess i would need each person to have a login not a massive deal if not.

      I don't want to screw up with openvpn stopping the ec2 again as there's no way to put in keyboard commands on aws boot.

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      • RicoR
        Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
        last edited by

        Can you draw up your network layout here? Maybe it's just me, but I don't understand what exactly you are doing.
        If you have just one pfSense Instance running in AWS as OpenVPN RAS there is no reason it could ask for User/PW at booting. Only if pfSense is acting as OpenVPN Client.
        But as said, I don't understand how your stuff is connected atm and what exactly you are trying to do.

        -Rico

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          thekow
          last edited by

          Basically want a machine Internet to login to openvpn and be able to access the private machine. I used the RW guide to set it up. It worked fine. Then when i rebooted the pfsense it asked for an auth password even though i set it up in the pfsense.
          As its AWS it bricked the machine as there is no way to type anything at boot time.
          Would like a way to know which person is logging in.

          Network

          I will try again with a local instance of the openvpn so if it does it again i can at least recover it without a long winded recovery of the drive

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          • RicoR
            Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
            last edited by

            I'd use the official documentation, there is a lot of really good stuff around for Remote Access VPNs.
            https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/book/openvpn/using-the-openvpn-server-wizard-for-remote-access.html
            https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/vpn/openvpn/openvpn-remote-access-server.html
            https://www.netgate.com/resources/videos/remote-access-vpns-on-pfsense.html
            https://www.netgate.com/resources/videos/remote-access-vpns-on-pfsense-part-2.html

            -Rico

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