Whoops, that wasn't aimed at me in the first place.
Nonetheless, I have a pretty good example of why OpenVPN "requires" a 
self-signed cert in CB's answer to issue #4756.
-Adam

On June 17, 2015 10:41:28 AM CDT, Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>The "issue" with OpenVPN is merely that I have to prime each client
>system with both software and configuration file(s), which isn't always
>possible or feasible in my environment.
>-Adam
>
>
>On June 17, 2015 10:22:04 AM CDT, "Ermal Luçi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Steve Yates <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Pingle wrote on Wed, Jun 17 2015 at 9:00 am:
>>>
>>> > are with the certificate, either with generating the cert (missing
>>the
>>> > SAN, for example)
>>>
>>>         I banged my head against Windows VPN for a bit before
>finding
>>out
>>> it doesn't support wildcard certs...seems *.example.com doesn't
>match
>>the
>>> hostname if the hostname doesn't have the * in it...
>>>
>>>         OpenVPN requires a self-signed cert.
>>>
>>
>>Can you report the issue with OpenVPN on self-signed cert?
>>
>>>
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