It turns out to be extremely complicated to install OpenVPN on a standard Centos 6 computer. Unfortunately, nobody provided better guidance, so, here's where I am moving forward on my own (so that my saga will help the next newbie who tries to install & run OpenVPN on Centos 6). Installing OPENVPN 2.1.3 Server on CentOS 6
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How to install VPN Server (OpenVPN) on CentOS 6 32bitĦ. Install OpenVPN to Configure Virtual Private Network on Centos 6ģ. Note: Non forum references I am currently reading to find a typical home user setup procedure are the following:ġ. Googling for basic Centos 6 openvpn setup examples, I found this site appears to contain the canonical openvpn installation instructions:īut, before I choose the actual route to take to set it up for a basic home user test - may I ask if there is an existing tutorial for installing & configuring openvpn on Centos 6 for basic home use that I've missed? (If not, any hints for making this thread that tutorial would be welcome.) I started to read the man page hoping to figure out how to set up the most basic of configurations however, it should be noted that the openvpn manpage is horrifically detailed - so it might not be the best way for a beginner to just get going to test it out in a basic home environment. Now it's time to set it up for a simple test, which would be whatever any basic home user would want to set up for their very first VPN task. $ sudo cp -r /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.2.2/easy-rsa/ /etc/openvpn/. $ sudo cp /usr/share/doc/openvpn-*/sample-config-files/nf /etc/openvpn/. $ sudo yum -enablerepo rpmforge install openvpn Given the information above, I installed openvpn using the command: Openvpn-2.2.86_64 : A full-featured SSL VPN solution Openvpn-2.2.x86_64 : Robust and highly flexible VPN daemon $ yum -noplugins -showduplicates -enablerepo \* -disablerepo c6-media,\*-source,\*debug\* provides "*/openvpn" Using yum, I can find multiple repositories containing the openvpn package: Also there was a short thread on "selinux and openvpn", but it too didn't show how to install openvpn on Centos6 to achieve basic personal security & anonymity for a first-time user. Searching for "openvpn", I did find a short thread on this forum about a network plugin (No VPN Plugin Available), but nothing on a typical openvpn setup. Having never used a VPN solution, and, knowing next to nothing about them, other than the fact that I want is to test VPN out, hoping to achieve the most basic of security and anonymity in a typical home environment, I ran a search in this forum but I didn't find any step-by-step tutorials for installing & configuring OpenVPN on Centos 6.
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