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luci-app-openvpn: lacks important features and has no docs #4204

Open thebiggestmac opened 4 years ago

thebiggestmac commented 4 years ago

luci-app-openvpn does not have OVPN clients setup (when OpenWRT is a server). You could not add user and export (DL) user profile. PFSense UI could be used as a model, however, it should be simplified (too complicated for OpenWRT).

Also, there is virtually no documentation, especially initial OPENVPN setup.

feckert commented 4 years ago

Please provide more information. What you want to expect. I am not a openvpn expert!

thebiggestmac commented 4 years ago

Ok, here are two screenshots from PFSense GUI: adding an user and exporting OVPN config file. image

These two are single page (upper & lower essential halves): image image

Using PFSense GUI you can create user, setting password & additional fields, than export OpenVPN config file. This greatly simplifies OpenVPN deployment when using OpenWRT as an OpenVPN server.

I think we don't need too much fields/forms in OpenWRT, just two (sub)pages are essential: add OpenVPN user with password (or blank) maybe with radio button to push default route, and generate & download user's OVPN profile ( /etc/openvpn/user.ovpn).

Considering initial setup I'll write later, since it is not really LUCI's function. Docs: I've found no docs describing all luci-app-openvpn existing forms/fields, many are not easy to understand. Just a cheatsheet with examples would be great.

TIA