Refreshing OpenVPN Server and User certificates in pfSense

While traveling it is nice to have access to your home network. Sometimes you want to watch a TV show (or Formula One race). I have setup OpenVPN for that on one of my servers. The certificates expire after a given period of time. I set my certs to expire after a year. Every year I have to look up how to do that, but now I have this post.

  1. Go into menu System -> Certificates
  2. Click the Reissue/Renew icon right from the expired certificate(s) (for both OpenVPN Certificate Authority and the VPN user)
  3. Go to menu VPN -> OpenVPN
  4. Select tab Client Export
  5. At the bottom of the page, under section Client Exports, click the type of export you need.
  6. Use the exported file in your OpenVPN client

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