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Steps to setting up a VPN on a Ubuntu server | Steps to setting up a VPN on a Ubuntu server | ||
1. First '''install''' the openvpn software with the command | 1. First '''install''' the openvpn software with the command. | ||
''aptitude install openvpn'' | ''aptitude install openvpn'' | ||
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''/etc/openvpn'' | ''/etc/openvpn'' | ||
2. to make things easier you can '''copy the dir "easy-rsa"''' from the samples dir to the current dir of "/etc/openvpn" | 2. to make things easier you can '''copy the dir "easy-rsa"''' from the samples dir to the current dir of "/etc/openvpn". | ||
''cp -R /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/ ./'' | ''cp -R /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/ ./'' | ||
3. after copying the easy-rsa dir switch to easy-rsa/2.0 where we will build the Certificates of Authority with some scripts. | |||
Revision as of 17:40, 12 May 2010
Steps to setting up a VPN on a Ubuntu server
1. First install the openvpn software with the command.
aptitude install openvpn
all of the files will be located in the:
/etc/openvpn
2. to make things easier you can copy the dir "easy-rsa" from the samples dir to the current dir of "/etc/openvpn".
cp -R /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/ ./
3. after copying the easy-rsa dir switch to easy-rsa/2.0 where we will build the Certificates of Authority with some scripts.