Re: Authentication in OpenIKED

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 01:38:24PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2023/03/01 14:21, Tobias Heider wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 09:24:50AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2023-03-01, J Doe <general@nativemethods.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have a question regarding authentication options in OpenIKED on
> > > > OpenBSD 7.2
> > > >
> > > > On my test lab I have one OpenBSD 7.2 machine with OpenIKED configured
> > > > to use PSK and a macOS 13.2.1 client that can connect to it.
> > > >
> > > > I read in: man iked.conf that PSK should not be used, so I am now
> > >
> > > I don't see that in the iked.conf manual. There is some reference to not
> > > using psk in /etc/examples/iked.conf but it's not clear whether that's
> > > because of the need to share a single psk with all endpoints connecting
> > > via the same iked.conf configuration line (certainly a problem when
> > > you have multiple users from unknown IPs but perhaps not if used for
> > > separately-configured lan-to-lan tunnels with strong randomly generated
> > > psks) or whether it's something else.
> >
> > We should probably remove that comment.
>
> Wondering if we should actually remove the whole examples/iked.conf
> file, it doesn't seem hugely useful..
>

I don't think I have ever used it. ok with me if no one objects.