Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN service account & Windows compute Certificate Store

[Selva N. <sel...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM Louis Chanouha via Openvpn-users <
ope...@li...> wrote:

>
> If I manually add the permission to the private key to NT
> Service\OpenVPNServocefrom this procedure:
>
> https://www.codyhosterman.com/2019/06/assigning-read-access-to-windows-private-key/,
>
> the connection works again.
>

This is the correct fix. Alternatively you can change the service account
back to LocalSystem, but not recommended.

We cannot let the installer forcefully change permissions on cer/key files,
but In the run time logs we could add "insufficient permissions" as another
reason for the error.

Selva