Hi,

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:44:17AM -0400, David Mehler wrote:
> Thanks for all your replies. So if I'm understanding this right, tell
> the user to download the OpenVPN app from the playstore. Then locally
> here create an OpenVPN configuration and export the .ovpn file, put
> that on a webserver. Then the user selects import configuration,
> punches in the web address and it just works after that? 

Yes.  Well, on iOS, Safari will just ask you "do you want to import
in OpenVPN?" and you click "yes!" and done :-) - I never managed to
get that done on Android.  So it downloads, and stores on flash.

Then, in OpenVPN for Android, you click on "(+)" on top, and when
it asks you for the name of the new profile, klick on "IMPORT" and
it will go to "Downloads" where you find the .ovpn downloaded.

Not *as* easy, but still explainable with like 5-6 screenshots :-)


What I do to make the "type in web address" more convenient and
more secure is to generate a long and random URL

  https://ourserver/adgwerbasdfserkbgarbagle/company.ovpn

and then run "qrencode" on that, to generate a QR code with that URL
in.  The QR code is displayed on the web app the users run from their
PC, and then they can just point their Android camera at it, click on
"open URL", it will go download + save, and then "import"...

> That's a lot simpler solution than the one I was thinking.

I'm totally lazy :-)

gert

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 feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted 
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             g...@greenie.muc.de

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