HOWTO OpenVPN setup(excelent)
1. First of all get a few additional repos, If you already have your repos setup, skip this step
If you have Fedora 3, follow these steps, http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor…notes.html#Yum
If you have Fedora 4, follow these steps, http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor…notes.html#Yum
If you have Fedora 5, follow these steps, http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor…notes.html#Yum
if you have CentOS, follow the “additional third party CentOS repos” http://www.osresources.com/11_6_en.html Then issue these commands, each line is a new command, anything beginning with “#” are comments so dont try to execute those.
# yum update # yum install openssl openssl-devel # openssl and openssl-devel may be installed already… so don’t worry
2. Right, now you want to install OpenVPN, here are the commands,
# yum install openvpn -y // Now check that it works # service openvpn start # service openvpn stop
3. A few things to setup before you can make certificates, issue these commands,
# find / -name "easy-rsa" // you should get an output like this # /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.0.7/easy-rsa // Now, make a copy of the easy-rsa directory, to /etc/openvpn/ ( make sure you #have put the right version number in i.e. mine was -2.0.7, change if needed) # cp -R /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.0.7/easy-rsa /etc/openvpn/ # cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa # chmod 777 * # mkdir /etc/openvpn/keys
