The expiry of the eduvpn profile is now notified in advance

The eduvpn-profile is valid for two (2) years. You will receive an email notification one (1) week before the expiration of your eduvpn profile. At that point, you have a week to create a new profile and import it into OpenVPN client to make your VPN connection work without interruption.

OpenVPN Connect client doesn’t work with the expired profile. In that case, you get an error message “Authentication Failed”.

Detailed instructions and more information:

Quick instruction:

  1. Create the new eduvpn-profile in the service https://account.oulu.fi/eduvpn. At the same time, remove your old profile from the service.
  2. After creating a new profile, bring it to OpenVPN client on your computer. Remove your old profile also from OpenVPN.
Last updated: 31.3.2022