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authorDante Catalfamo2020-07-15 13:14:57 -0400
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gateway: work on wording
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: inet 192.168.0.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
-
* Configuring OpenVPN
** Installation
@@ -132,17 +131,19 @@
Let's assume the VPN profile we've downloaded from our provider
exists in =/root/profile.ovpn=. This could have been downloaded
- using [[https://man.openbsd.org/man1/ftp.1][=ftp(1)=]] or transferred on using [[https://man.openbsd.org/man1/sftp.1][=sftp(1)=]]. It also requires a
- username and password supplied by the user. Let's say that username
- is =user@example.com= and the password is =password=.
+ using [[https://man.openbsd.org/man1/ftp.1][=ftp(1)=]] or transferred on using [[https://man.openbsd.org/man1/sftp.1][=sftp(1)=]]. Let's say it also
+ requires a username and password supplied by the user, as most
+ commercial VPN providers authenticate users in this way. For this
+ example, the username is =user@example.com= and the password is
+ =password=.
To allow OpenVPN to login to the VPN without the us having to enter
- our password, we can add the =auth-user-pass= configuration option
- to our =ovpn= file. This will allow us run OpenVPN as a daemon, and
+ our password, we can add the =auth-user-pass= directive to our
+ =.ovpn= file. This will allow us run OpenVPN as a daemon, and
restart it without having to type our username and password in.
To do this we can create a file called =/root/vpnpasswd.txt= containing
- our username, followed my our password on separate lines.
+ our username, followed my our password on a separate line.
#+BEGIN_SRC
user@examples.com