After the former FreshPorts server was retired, its OpenVPN credential were revoked. I maintain those certificates via ssl-admin. I uploaded the new CRL into the System | Certificate Manager | Certificate Revocation page in pfSense. Today, I was seeing strange errors in Nagios, and figured someone wasn’t connected to the VPN. Checking OpenVPN client logs, […]
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See also SSL client vs server certificates and bacula-fd. I use OpenVPN since at least 2008 – now going on 13 years. I find it to be reliable and stable. A few days ago, I added another client to a VPN. I run this particular network with self-signed certificates which I create using ssl-admin –
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See also OpenVPN: unsupported certificate purpose. NOTES NOTE: When using ssl-admin for Bacula: use option 4 (Perform a one-step request/sign) for clients (bacula-fd) use option S (Create new Signed Server certificate) for servers (bacula-sd and bacula-dir) I know these things, but I repeatedly go to option 4 and forget…. Original post follows Sometimes I forget
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This blog post describes my Let’s Encrypt solution which uses acme.sh and dns-01 challenges to obtain SSL certificates. If you are using HTTP challenges, this post might still be useful, but your configuration will differ slightly. Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority which has become wildly popular since it was launched in April 2016 (just
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