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This is covered well in the digitalocean guide, but I thought I would note down the commands used here as it's something I use/do often.

Generate a client key

First, generate the client key by cd'ing into your openvpn-ca (cert authority folder) and sourcing the variables required:

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replace <client-key-name> with the name of the client key you want

Generate a client .ovpn file

If you followed the digitalocean guide you'll now be able to generate an ovpn client config that contains the key and everything needed for a client to securely connect to your openvpn server by

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