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# ovpn-admin
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Simple web UI to manage OpenVPN users, their certificates & routes in Linux. While backend is written in Go, frontend is based on Vue.js.
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Originally created in [Flant ](https://flant.com/ ) for internal needs & used for years, then updated to be more modern and [publicly released ](https://blog.flant.com/introducing-ovpn-admin-web-interface-for-openvpn/ ) in March'21. Your contributions are welcome!
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***DISCLAIMER!** This project was created for experienced users (system administrators) and private (e.g., protected by network policies) environments only. Thus, it is not implemented with security in mind (e.g., it doesn't strictly check all parameters passed by users, etc.). It also relies heavily on files and fails if required files aren't available.*
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## Features
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* Adding OpenVPN users (generating certificates for them);
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* Revoking/restoring users certificates;
* Generating ready-to-user config files;
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* Providing metrics for Prometheus, including certificates expiration date, number of (connected/total) users, information about connected users;
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* (optionally) Specifying CCD (`client-config-dir`) for each user;
* (optionally) Operating in a master/slave mode (syncing certs & CCD with other server);
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* (optionally) Specifying/changing password for additional authorization in OpenVPN;
* (optionally) Specifying the Kubernetes LoadBalancer if it's used in front of the OpenVPN server (to get an automatically defined `remote` in the `client.conf.tpl` template).
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* (optionally) Storing certificates and other files in Kubernetes Secrets (**Attention, this feature is experimental!**).
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### Screenshots
Managing users in ovpn-admin:
![ovpn-admin UI ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flant/ovpn-admin/master/img/ovpn-admin-users.png )
An example of dashboard made using ovpn-admin metrics:
![ovpn-admin metrics ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flant/ovpn-admin/master/img/ovpn-admin-metrics.png )
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## Installation
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### Disclaimer
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This tool uses external calls for `bash` , `coreutils` and `easy-rsa` , thus **Linux systems only are supported** at the moment.
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### 1. Docker
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There is a ready-to-use [docker-compose.yaml ](https://github.com/flant/ovpn-admin/blob/master/docker-compose.yaml ), so you can just change/add values you need and start it with [start.sh ](https://github.com/flant/ovpn-admin/blob/master/start.sh ).
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Requirements. You need [Docker ](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ ) and [docker-compose ](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/ ) installed.
Commands to execute:
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```bash
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git clone https://github.com/flant/ovpn-admin.git
cd ovpn-admin
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./start.sh
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```
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### 2. Building from source
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Requirements. You need Linux with the following components installed:
- [golang ](https://golang.org/doc/install )
- [packr2 ](https://github.com/gobuffalo/packr#installation )
- [nodejs/npm ](https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/ )
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Commands to execute:
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```bash
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git clone https://github.com/flant/ovpn-admin.git
cd ovpn-admin
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./bootstrap.sh
./build.sh
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./ovpn-admin
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```
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(Please don't forget to configure all needed params in advance.)
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### 3. Prebuilt binary (WIP)
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You can also download and use prebuilt binaries from the [releases ](https://github.com/flant/ovpn-admin/releases ) page — just choose a relevant tar.gz file.
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To use password authentication (the `--auth` flag) you have to install [openvpn-user ](https://github.com/pashcovich/openvpn-user/releases ). This tool should be available in your `$PATH` and its binary should be executable (`+x`).
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## Usage
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```
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usage: ovpn-admin [< flags > ]
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Flags:
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--help show context-sensitive help (try also --help-long and --help-man)
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--listen.host="0.0.0.0" host for ovpn-admin
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(or $OVPN_LISTEN_HOST)
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--listen.port="8080" port for ovpn-admin
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(or $OVPN_LISTEN_PROT)
--role="master" server role, master or slave
(or $OVPN_ROLE)
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--master.host="http://127.0.0.1"
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(or $OVPN_MASTER_HOST) URL for the master server
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--master.basic-auth.user="" user for master server's Basic Auth
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(or $OVPN_MASTER_USER)
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--master.basic-auth.password=""
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(or $OVPN_MASTER_PASSWORD) password for master server's Basic Auth
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--master.sync-frequency=600 master host data sync frequency in seconds
(or $OVPN_MASTER_SYNC_FREQUENCY)
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--master.sync-token=TOKEN master host data sync security token
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(or $OVPN_MASTER_TOKEN)
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--ovpn.network="172.16.100.0/24"
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(or $OVPN_NETWORK) NETWORK/MASK_PREFIX for OpenVPN server
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--ovpn.server=HOST:PORT:PROTOCOL ...
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(or $OVPN_SERVER) HOST:PORT:PROTOCOL for OpenVPN server
can have multiple values
--ovpn.server.behindLB enable if your OpenVPN server is behind Kubernetes
(or $OVPN_LB) Service having the LoadBalancer type
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--ovpn.service="openvpn-external"
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(or $OVPN_LB_SERVICE) the name of Kubernetes Service having the LoadBalancer
type if your OpenVPN server is behind it
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--mgmt=main=127.0.0.1:8989 ...
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(or $OVPN_MGMT) ALIAS=HOST:PORT for OpenVPN server mgmt interface;
can have multiple values
--metrics.path="/metrics" URL path for exposing collected metrics
(or $OVPN_METRICS_PATH)
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--easyrsa.path="./easyrsa/" path to easyrsa dir
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(or $EASYRSA_PATH)
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--easyrsa.index-path="./easyrsa/pki/index.txt"
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(or $OVPN_INDEX_PATH) path to easyrsa index file
--ccd enable client-config-dir
(or $OVPN_CCD)
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--ccd.path="./ccd" path to client-config-dir
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(or $OVPN_CCD_PATH)
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--templates.clientconfig-path=""
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(or $OVPN_TEMPLATES_CC_PATH) path to custom client.conf.tpl
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--templates.ccd-path="" path to custom ccd.tpl
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(or $OVPN_TEMPLATES_CCD_PATH)
--auth.password enable additional password authorization
(or $OVPN_AUTH)
--auth.db="./easyrsa/pki/users.db"
(or $OVPN_AUTH_DB_PATH) database path for password authorization
--debug enable debug mode
(or $OVPN_DEBUG)
--verbose enable verbose mode
(or $OVPN_VERBOSE)
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--log.level set log level: trace, debug, info, warn, error (default info)
(or $LOG_LEVEL)
--log.format set log format: text, json (default text)
(or $LOG_FORMAT)
--storage.backend storage backend: filesystem, kubernetes.secrets (default filesystem)
(or $STORAGE_BACKEND)
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--version show application version
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```
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## Further information
Please feel free to use [issues ](https://github.com/flant/ovpn-admin/issues ) and [discussions ](https://github.com/flant/ovpn-admin/discussions ) to get help from maintainers & community.