I believe all you had to do was place the config file in /etc/openvpn/server or /etc/openvpn/client, then the systemd units would pick it up automatically.
Could you please verify that? If that fixes your use case, then we might want to add an entry to the 18.04 release notes.
See this upstream change: https:/ /github. com/OpenVPN/ openvpn/ commit/ 28bd79ac980488d bfce2e8136287e3 8c6f35a043
I believe all you had to do was place the config file in /etc/openvpn/server or /etc/openvpn/ client, then the systemd units would pick it up automatically.
Could you please verify that? If that fixes your use case, then we might want to add an entry to the 18.04 release notes.