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Ambiguity in certain VPN for VPC docs page #173

Closed mlinnem closed 10 months ago

mlinnem commented 1 year ago

On the page https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-vpn-client-environment-setup

"Option 1" isn't clear. Opening the .ovpn file gives the following more clear directions:

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/# Uncomment the next two lines if certificate-based client authentication is enabled. /# Ask your VPN administrator provides your client certificate and replace client_public_key /# with your client certificate filename. /#cert client_public_key.crt /#key client_private_key.key "

Also if this can be escalated up to design/dev/PM, it's a pretty unusual process to have to combine two files by hand as suggested.

austinmama commented 1 year ago

@mlinnem Thank you for your feedback. I will review/update the topic. I will also escalate this issue to our designer/PM.

mlinnem commented 1 year ago

Thank you!

mlinnem commented 1 year ago

btw, just found the following page that bears a strong resemblance to the one in question: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-setting-up-vpn-client

Might be a piece of the puzzle if you weren't already aware. It seems to have some somewhat clearer language and some more details on it.

austinmama commented 10 months ago

The topic in question was recently updated. Now, it not only includes a link to the Setting up a VPN client tutorial, but there is now an automated client certificate authentication process for private certificates.