OpenVPN Access Server System Administrator Guide

5 Connect Client
The Connect Client‟s role is to create and distribute client configuration files and/or pre-configured
OpenVPN Conect Client installers to authenticated users. This is the only way that VPN client
installations are deployed with OpenVPN Access Server.
The client configuration and installer files generated by the Connect Client for a particular user are
locked to that user. No other user can connect to the VPN with those files. Note that more than one
connection profile may be installed on a client machine, for those situations where multiple users
share the same machine.
The user accesses the Connect Client by entering the appropriate https URL into his or her Web
browser. The URL to use is described in Section 4.2.2.3. Typically, the Connect Client URL is
simply the server‟s FQDN preceded by “https://”. When the browser connects, the user will
likely see a warning or error displayed due to the untrusted server certificate (see Section 5.4 for
information on preventing users from seeing such warnings). Once the user confirms that the server
should be accessed, the user is presented with a simple login page, as shown in Figure below.
Figure 40: Connect Client login page
Users are authenticated against the authentication scheme configured by the Access Server
administrator (see Section 4.3.1). When authenticating a user has two options which are seen in the
drop-down menu next to the “Go” button. The user has a choice to connect or login.
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