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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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## 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);
* (optionally) Specifying/changing password for additional authorization in OpenVPN.
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### Screenshots
Managing users in ovpn-admin:
An example of dashboard made using ovpn-admin metrics:
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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 forgot to configure all needed params in advance.)
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### 3. Prebuilt binary (WIP)
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You can also download & 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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## 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 (also try --help-long and --help-man).
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--listen.host="0.0.0.0" host for ovpn-admin
--listen.port="8080" port for ovpn-admin
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--role="master" server role master or slave
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--master.host="http://127.0.0.1"
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url for master server
--master.basic-auth.user="" user for basic auth on master server url
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--master.basic-auth.password=""
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password for basic auth on master server url
--master.sync-frequency=600 master host data sync frequency in seconds.
--master.sync-token=TOKEN master host data sync security token
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--ovpn.network="172.16.100.0/24"
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network for openvpn server
--ovpn.server=HOST:PORT:PROTOCOL ...
comma separated addresses for openvpn servers
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--mgmt=main=127.0.0.1:8989 ...
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comma separated (alias=address) for openvpn servers mgmt interfaces
--metrics.path="/metrics" URL path for surfacing collected metrics
--easyrsa.path="./easyrsa/" path to easyrsa dir
--easyrsa.index-path="./easyrsa/pki/index.txt"
path to easyrsa index file.
--ccd Enable client-config-dir.
--ccd.path="./ccd" path to client-config-dir
--auth.password Enable additional password authorization.
--auth.db="./easyrsa/pki/users.db"
Database path fort password authorization.
--debug Enable debug mode.
--verbose Enable verbose mode.
--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.
