[Openvpn-devel] small passwordstore and openvpn cooperation script

[Craig C. <cr...@un...>]

Hello,

I have wanted to integrate my use of password store (https://www.passwordstore.org/) with openvpn
for a while but never quite figured it out. After a conversation on #openvpn I discovered the Management Interface and was able to rather quickly write the script I wanted.

I will be fixing it up for ease of use but the basics here work:

```
sudo /usr/sbin/openvpn --management localhost 7505 \
--management-query-passwords \
--management-hold \
--config $1 >~/.openvpn.log &

MGMT_IFACE=/dev/tcp/localhost/7505

until echo "" > $MGMT_IFACE
do
  sleep 1
done

exec 3> $MGMT_IFACE
echo "hold release" >&3
echo "password Auth '$(pass $2 | head -n1)'" >&3
echo "username Auth $(pass $2 | head -n2 | tail -n1)" >&3
```

$1 is my .ovpn file path
$2 is the path used for pass to retrieve my username/password.
for pass typically password is first line, username is second line in this case.

Thanks,
Craig Comstock | CFEngineer/digger at Northern.tech | personal: unreasonablefarm.org