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I need to know, how can I identify an OpenVPN clients, connecting to an OpenVPN gateway with a username, for example? Where would I put it in the connection profile file? Or generate a personal certificate with a name for it?

Another question - when I have two OpenVPN clients connected, user1 and user2, how do I list them and their assigned IP's from OpenVPN server machine? Commands in OpenVPN telnet management interface don't seem to provide this.

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Generally, your situation seems to predicate CCD, "client config dir". CCD is a directory containing one file per connection profile. The file is tied to a unique client key, so that the key "johndoe" gets the profile specified in ccd/johndoe assigned when connecting. With this approach, you know which IP a specific client has. However, if you just want to list connected clients together with IPs, you can specify "status openvpn-status.log" in your config file. Then openvpn-status.log will contain an updated list of connected clients.

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  • At least on Windows, status openvpn-status.log puts the log in the config directory. Use status status "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\log\\openvpn-status.log" (yes with doubled backslashes) to target the log directory.
    – Mark Berry
    Apr 2, 2019 at 21:44

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