gen-client-tarball.sh

gen-client-tarball.sh

[davidp@supernova:~/openvpn-easy-rsa]$ cat gen-client-tarball 
#!/bin/bash

# Call with a client name, it will create a tarball named after that client
# containing keys/$CLIENT.{key,crt} and keys/ca.crt ready to provide

CLIENT=$1
TARBALL=$CLIENT-openvpn-keys.tar.gz

if [[ ! -f keys/$CLIENT.key ]]; then
    echo "FAIL: keys/$CLIENT.key not found";
    echo "Did you typo, or forget to generate them with ./build-key $CLIENT ?"
    exit 1;
fi

tar cvvfz $TARBALL -C keys/ $CLIENT.{crt,key} ca.crt


echo "Keys and CA cert should be in $TARBALL"
echo "Copy it to the client, then extract to /etc/openvpn, e.g.:"
echo "sudo tar -C /etc/openvpn -xzvf $CLIENT-openvpn-keys.tar.gz"