Generating GroupVPN configurations

You can use groupvpn-config to generate configuration files and (optionally) create the required users and relationships in ejabberd.

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Start by viewing the help message:

$ groupvpn-config --help

A very basic invocation, which just prints ejabberdctl commands and configuration data in a readable format, is:

$ groupvpn-config testgroup localhost 5

Passwords are randomly generated, so if you need to generate the same passwords on multiple runs of the tool, you can pass a string to be used as a random seed using the --seed option:

$ groupvpn-config testgroup localhost 5 --seed asdfghjkl

If you want configuration files in a zip file:

$ groupvpn-config testgroup localhost 5 --zip >configs.zip

By default, ejabberdctl commands are printed but not run. Use the --configure flag to actually run them:

$ groupvpn-config testgroup localhost 5 --configure --zip >configs.zip

Or maybe you want to save the commands to a file to run later (the commands are printed to stderr):

$ groupvpn-config testgroup localhost 5 --zip >configs.zip 2>commands.sh

If you want to see only ejabberdctl commands or only configuration data printed, you can redirect one of the output streams to /dev/null:

$ groupvpn-config testgroup localhost 5 2>/dev/null