[ale] OpenVPN Question
Jim Popovitch
jimpop at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 3 16:35:02 EST 2006
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 16:04 -0500, John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I will be trying out 'openvpn-2.0.9' from a Linux laptop and have a
> couple of questions:
>
> 1. I have file set with certificate, etc., for the connection. Where is it
> appropriate to save this, and with what permissions?
/etc/openvpn/ owned by root, with 0600 perms.
>
> 2. As a client I would like to open and close the tunnel manually (by
> screen widget for example). How can I achieve this?
I use this command from a Gnome Panel launcher:
xterm -T "OpenVPN" -e "sudo openvpn /etc/openvpn/vpn.conf"
That will open, and keep open, an xterm that I click on and hit CTRL-C
when I want to close the vpn connection.
make sure that you set /etc/sudoers (run "visudo" as root) to properly
add "openvpn" as a command for your userid like this:
jimpop ALL= /usr/sbin/openvpn
or like this if you don't want to be bothered for your password each
time:
jimpop ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/openvpn
hth,
-Jim P.
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