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I have access to my companies OpenVPN Server to access some documents from home and want to see what settings are configured on the Server.

We use the open-source community version OpenVPN, can I somehow read the whole server configuration? I am not interested in any paths to certificates, just the configured settings.

I understand that the negotiated encryption/hashing algorithms reflect some of the server configuration but not all of it.

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  • Wouldn't that be a possible security issue? Nov 7, 2015 at 22:38

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No.

Your client only knows the current algorithm in use, compression settings and arguments the server is set to "Push" such as default gateway.

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  • Once connected to the server, if your network administrator allows you to access to the server config file, you can read and even write it. But that would be very insecure server.
    – dotvotdot
    Nov 12, 2015 at 12:34
  • @dotvotdot and quite unlikely as its common to install OpenVPN in system directories not /users on win or /home on linux.
    – Linef4ult
    Nov 12, 2015 at 15:29
  • @Linef4uit yes .. but the OpenVPN server config file can be read over a VPN provided the underlying security allows it.
    – dotvotdot
    Nov 12, 2015 at 18:00

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