Openvpn

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 provided.

4. edit the vars file and add in information for KEY_COUNTRY, KEY_PROVINCE, KEY_CITY, KEY_ORG, and KEY_EMAIL parameters. save and exit out back to easy-rsa/2.0/.

Nano vars

then after you edit the file use the command source vars

5. now we are going to run some scripts starting with the clean-all

./clean-all

followed up by the

./build-ca

the text showing up should look somewhat like this

ai:easy-rsa # ./build-ca Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key ............++++++ ...........++++++ writing new private key to 'ca.key'

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You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated into your certificate request. What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN. There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank For some fields there will be a default value, If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.

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Country Name (2 letter code) [KG]: State or Province Name (full name) [NA]: Locality Name (eg, city) [BISHKEK]: Organization Name (eg, company) [OpenVPN-TEST]: Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:OpenVPN-CA Email Address [me@myhost.mydomain]: