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raksasas

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Registered: 2013-09-12

Posts: 54

Help setting up OpenVPN

I am having a hard time figuring this out and am betting it is rather simple.  I have looked throught severl guides but It is just not clicking in my head for some reason.  What I do know is that I need to build the cert and key.

What I have:
router running DD-WRT (VPN supported)
netbook running Waldorf (stable)

I see in apt that there are a couple things regarding OpenVPN but unsure of which one to use to build the cert and key or if this is even the correct route for buiding the cert and key

Current goal:
Primary:
vpn into my home network

Secondary
Setup my friends router to to vpn mine to connect our networks

Thanks.

KrunchTime

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From: not where I belong

Registered: 2012-03-02

Posts: 2,385

Re: Help setting up OpenVPN

I can't speak for creating your own certs and keys.  However, if you are using a VPN service that provides the certs and keys, then simply left-click on the network manager icon in the system tray and select VPN Connections - Configure VPN to set up the appropriate entries.

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raksasas

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Registered: 2013-09-12

Posts: 54

Re: Help setting up OpenVPN

KrunchTime, thank you for the attempt. 

I have found that OpenVPN is already installed by default.  So far I have:
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Make sure OpenVPN is installed

sudo apt-get install openvpn

copy the

sudo cp -r /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa /etc/openvpn

Make a backup for the vars file

sudo cp  /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/vars /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/vars,bkup

configure some variables near end of the /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/vars file to reflect your configuration like below: -

export KEY_COUNTRY="MY"
export KEY_PROVINCE="WP"
export KEY_CITY="Kuala Lumpur"
export KEY_ORG="My Organization"

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As for the running the:
sudo /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/vars

sudo /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/clean-all

sudo /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/2.0/build-ca

Thier outputs are not making much sense to me.  So I haven't moved on from those yet.