OpenVPN Configuration Generator SparkLabs Pty Ltd

The OpenVPN Configuration Generator is designed to make generating server and client configurations for an OpenVPN server and Viscosity easier.

README

OpenVPN Configuration Generator

Developed by SparkLabs

Further documentation and tutorials can be found here.

Overview

The OpenVPN Configuration Generator is designed to make generating server and client configurations for an OpenVPN server and Viscosity easier.

Download

Releases for macOS, Windows, and Linux can be downloaded here.

Usage

To get started, create a new directory, cd into it and run the following then follow the prompts:

openvpn-generate init

To create a client, cd into the directory where you ran init, run the following and follow the prompts:

openvpn-generate client

Usage: openvpn-generate init
Initialise configuration, creates server configuration
Optional:
  --path DIR      Directory configurations are stored (Current Directory default)
  --keysize size  Change Keysize (2048 default)
  --days days     Days certificates are valid (3650 default)
  --algorithm (rsa|ecdsa|eddsa) Algorithm to use (RSA default)
                                ECDSA defaults to secp384r1. EDDSA defaults to ED25519
  --curve curve_name            ECDSA/EDDSA curve to use
  --curve suffix  Appends suffix to server file names. Simplifies running multiple servers slightly.

Usage: openvpn-generate client
Creates client configurations
Optional:
  --path DIR      Directory configurations are stored (Current Directory default)
  --name NAME     Prefill Common Name

Usage: openvpn-generate revoke
Revoke a client and create/update the CRL
Optional:
  --path DIR      Directory configurations are stored (Current Directory default)
  --name NAME     Prefill Common Name

Usage: openvpn-generate --show-curves
Show available ECDSA curves

Usage: openvpn-generate --help
Displays this information

Usage: openvpn-generate --about
Displays information about this tool

Installation

macOS

Extract the tar.gz archive and run

Ubuntu

sudo dpkg -i openvpn-configuration-generator_1.0-1.deb

Windows

Download and run the MSI installer. The install location is added to the system path by default for easy use and installs all prerequisites automatically.