Installing Open Source OpenVPN | OpenVPN
OpenVPN is a popular open source cross platform VPN protocol. Of all the platforms Linux probably has the most possible methods of installing and running an OpenVPN client or server. There are a great many flavors of Linux out there (e.g. Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Arch) just to name a few of the more popular ones. One of the biggest differences between many of the Linux [gentoo-user] openVPN - Google Groups Feb 07, 2017 Configure Gentoo as an access point with hostapd, and
The developers are right to recommend that you drop privileges, but wrong to recommend that you drop to a widely used faceless account. You should use a dedicated faceless account. Gentoo creates for you the openvpn faceless user for this purpose. You should use that, not nobody.
OpenVPN is a multi-platform, full-featured SSL VPN solution. Description. Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenVPN. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact. A remote attacker may be able to recover plaintext from encrypted communications. Workaround. There is no known workaround at this time.
If you are using Debian, Gentoo, or a non-RPM-based Linux distribution, use your distro-specific packaging mechanism such as apt-get on Debian or emerge on Gentoo. It is also possible to install OpenVPN on Linux using the universal ./configure method. First expand the .tar.gz file: tar xfz openvpn-[version].tar.gz
Apr 28, 2009 · I have a Gentoo server, and I am looking for a VPN to run on it I can connect to from OpenWRT, Android, iOS, Gentoo, Windows, and Ubuntu. I have tried OpenVPN several times, but it is extremely frustrating, none of the documentation is consistent, it makes no sense one version or platform to another. Posted 2/6/17 7:00 PM, 12 messages Gentoo's Bugzilla – Bug 183457 net-misc/openvpn UDPv6 patch Last modified: 2008-08-02 21:39:21 UTC node [gannet] Owen decides to make them part of the full-mesh VPN by setting them up as OpenVPN Cloud users. All OpenVPN Cloud users if not assigned to a specific group, belong to the Default Group. The full-mesh access configuration allows these users to access all of the VPN even other User’s devices. Gentoo [module & tools] Exherbo [module & tools] NixOS [module & tools] Nix on Darwin [userspace go & tools] OpenWRT [module & tools] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 [module-kmod, module-dkms, & tools] CentOS 8 [module-kmod, module-dkms, & tools] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 [module-kmod, module-dkms, & tools] CentOS 7 [module, module-dkms, & tools] Unfortunately, there is a serious alignment bug (#757037 on Debian) with this library on armv5tel, preventing it working correctly (and inhibiting the use of certain client apps, such as openvpn). The problem is fixed in version 2.09 of the library, for which a placeholder ebuild is provided here.