Is there a way to disconnect an openvpn connection that was established by free-radius with a shell command line?
I have all information about the openvpn connection:
- Username
- Client IP
- AccountSeassionID
- ...
Is there a way to disconnect an openvpn connection that was established by free-radius with a shell command line?
I have all information about the openvpn connection:
pkill -SIGTERM -f 'openvpn --daemon --conf $OPENVPNCONFFILE'
the pkill command allows you to signal a process based on name or other attributes
This will send SIGTERM to the openvpn causing it to gracefully quit and close the tun interface. You may/will need to modify the section after -f to match the way you started the openvpn connection.
I found this in the Signals section of the openvpn man page.
Determine the virtual interface with
ifconfig
:and shutdown it with:
Here're the init script that I've wrote for RedHat based:
then you can use it as usual:
Simply running
sudo pkill openvpn
worked just fine for me. (Linux Mint 19.1)Replace client with the corresponding name. This will shutdown the session.
I have never used free-radius, but I am familiar with a similar problem in OpenVPN. If the connection is started from the command line, then the VPN client either stays alive on the prompt or it retreats into the background, but there is no command to explicitly stop the connection.
Under Linux the only way to stop the connection is with a "kill" or "killall" command. Could be similar for free-radius connections.
Just thought I'd update my comment with a fuller answer (which may not be relevant, considering I dont know about free-radius)..
I've been using a Debian Linux distro and installed the openvpn package. The client config in Debian can be launched via command line, which leads one to this problem of there being seemingly no neat way to terminate / manage the connection...
I learned today though that there's a /etc/init.d/openvpn script that runs at boot time and if I place the openvpn config file in /etc/openvpn/ (the file extension must be .conf), I can control the connection by using /etc/init.d/openvpn stop, and etc/init.d/openvpn start (or "service openvpn stop").
Putting the config file in /etc/openvpn/ also causes the VPN tunnel to come up automatically at boot time. It also reconnects after disconnect automatically as well.