Now we can test our VPN connection: # sudo openvpn -config /etc/openvpn/nfĪssuming that this last step ended with Initialization Sequence Completed, we just need to verify whether this connection is actually used and I've found quite helpful here. With this done we can go into configuring VPN from Terminal window: # sudo mv ~/Desktop/*.crt /etc/openvpn/ # sudo mv ~/Desktop/*.pem /etc/openvpn/ # sudo mv ~/Desktop/*.ovpn /etc/openvpn/nf # sudo sed -i "s*ca *ca /etc/openvpn/*" /etc/openvpn/nf # sudo sed -i "s*crl-verify *crl-verify /etc/openvpn/*" /etc/openvpn/nf # sudo echo "auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/client.login" > /etc/openvpn/nf # sudo echo "mssfix 1400" > /etc/openvpn/nf # sudo echo "dhcp-option DNS 209.222.18.218" > /etc/openvpn/nf # sudo echo "dhcp-option DNS 209.222.18.222" > /etc/openvpn/nf # echo " username" | sudo tee -a /etc/openvpn/client.login # echo ' password' | sudo tee -a /etc/openvpn/client.login # sudo chmod 500 /etc/openvpn/client.login
Yes, you can use any other directory too - this is just one I prefer. Copy them all to your desktop and we'll use them later for setup. ovpn file with desired destination (usually going with one closest to you gives the best results) and also get both.
Private internet access linux mint advanced settings archive#
While this might cause long term issues if that IP ever changes, it does help a lot with firewall setup as we won't need to poke a hole for DNS over our eth0 adapter.įrom downloaded archive select. These have VPN server IP instead of DNS name. More careful ones will notice these files are slightly different than recommended default. However, there are some possible improvements to be made.Īs OpenVPN client is installed by default these days, we only need to download PIA's OpenVPN configuration files. It was for then current version 16 and it still works. I have already written about getting Private Internet Access running on Linux Mint back in 2013.
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