Re: [Openvpn-users] Kill a client from a script?

[Jon B. <jon...@la...>]

Den onsdag 19.apr kl. 15:28 skrev Jan Mulders:

> Hello,
>
> I'm currently automating the user blocking process for my OpenVPN  
> install, and I would basically like to use the management  
> interface's 'kill' command from a Perl script, or from the root  
> terminal.
>
> What is the easiest way to do this? I sadly don't have useful  
> knowledge of Perl, but I can run commands from the script which  
> runs as root.

use netcat to connect to the management interface, and then use shell  
scripts
to echo or cat "kill foobar"


> If anyone has any helpful hints or tips on how I could knock off  
> one user, without affecting the others (while I revoke their cert,  
> and add a '-suspended' suffix to their ccd file, so ccd-exclusive  
> won't let them reconnect), I would be very grateful.

If the cert is revoked, you dont need to worry about adding suspended  
to the filename
but it is a good idea to rename/move it



JonB