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Want to access the Internet safely and securely from your smartphone or laptop when connected to an untrusted network such as the WiFi of a hotel or coffee shop? A Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows you to traverse untrusted networks privately and securely as if you were on a private network. The traffic emerges from the VPN server and continues its journey to the destination.
When combined with HTTPS connections, this setup allows you to secure your wireless logins and transactions. You can circumvent geographical restrictions and censorship, and shield your location and any unencrypted HTTP traffic from the untrusted network.
OpenVPN is a full-featured open source Secure Socket Layer (SSL) VPN solution that accommodates a wide range of configurations. In this tutorial, we’ll set up an OpenVPN server on a Droplet and then configure access to it from Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. This tutorial will keep the installation and configuration steps as simple as possible for these setups.
Note: If you plan to set up an OpenVPN server on a DigitalOcean Droplet, be aware that we, like many hosting providers, charge for bandwidth overages. For this reason, please be mindful of how much traffic your server is handling.
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Thanks! BTW, if not working for some one this script may do the trick: https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install
Works great, thanks !!
But if I want more than one client to connect, how do I create login for another one?
Thanks for making an updated guide for the new LTS release!!
If anyone else is having trouble with iOS setup using OpenVPN Connect, you need to remove all of the [inline] options (ca, cert, key, tls-auth) and just leave the embedded certificates there. I chose to just comment the lines out in the config, but you can delete them as well.
You could also use this, deploy an OpenVPN Endpoint with a single command. https://github.com/ttlequals0/autovpn
If you want a GUI – Pritunl is great also, as is OpenVPN Access Server.
OpenVPN still defaults to BF-CBC which hasn’t been broken yet but as a good practice it would be best to use AES-128-CBC; you will at least get an advantage since many CPUs hardware optimize AES, not to mention it’s got more eyeballs looking at it and is ‘battle hardened’.
Using the additional directive “auth SHA256” will use SHA2 instead of SHA1 for message authentication; the latter is now considered cryptographically broken.
More hardening tips: https://blog.g3rt.nl/openvpn-security-tips.html
Great tutorial…on my Androids I am getting “Error reading multiple files referenced by profile: [inline], [inline], [inline], [inline]”…how can I correct that?
is there a solution if the net provider here prevents UDP connection ?
I’ve strictly followed this guide on a newly crested Ubuntu 16.04 system, altough I had to leave out the [inline] directives (I commented out those lines) to be able to get the ovpn profile working on iOS. I can now succesfully set up a connection from an iPad to the server, however once OpenVPN is connected, I can’t actually browse the web. The syslog en ufw.log files don’t seem to report anything unexpected. How can I best approach debugging this issue?
Thanks!
Can you add a Username & Password to the openvpn config? So that not everyone can logon who has the config
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