Easily set up an online VPN using OpenVPN on a VPS with this simple script Amazon Web Services offer cloud-based servers that allow a user to easily set up a remote Linux server and host a VPN using OpenVPN to use an unfiltered Internet connection that can pass through a…
Read MoreSample OpenVPN configuration files to help with OpenVPN setup Below is a sample OpenVPN configuration file, this is running a server with an internal IP address of 10.8.0.0. This is using UDP and port 1194. If you set it up on port 443 instead, it can be hidden amongst other…
Read MoreThis iptables config will map the 10.8.0.0 IP address to the 54.66.223.254 IP address range to enable the OpenVPN deamon to function. This is what I used when I was using OpenVPN to connect securely to a remote Amazon instance for access to a Linux virtual machine. # Generated by…
Read MoreThis command will set a passphrase for the server pem file for OpenVPN on Linux. I setup a VPN configuration on Ubuntu and forgot to set the passphrase. This is how I managed to set one. ubuntu@ip-172-31-13-140:~$ sudo openssl rsa -des3 -in server-key.pem -out server2.pem Enter pass phrase for server-key.pem:…
Read MoreTo create a new set of keys for OpenVPN using Easy-RSA, we firstly need to clean our environment and get ready for the build. $ ./easyrsa init-pki$ ./easyrsa init-pki Now we need to build the certificate authority. $ ./easyrsa build-ca nopass Note: using Easy-RSA configuration from: ./vars Generating a…
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Read MoreHow to use the Debian apt command over the Internet through a TAFE proxy. If you wish to use the apt-get command on Linux and you are behind a proxy, such as the one that TAFE colleges use, then this simple tweak will take care of this issue. Use the…
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