README.md

EasyOpenVPN

A set of scripts and configs to easily set up openvpn with basic user/password autentication.

Prerequisites

• python2
• python-bcrypt
• python-pysqlite2
• openvpn
• openssl

Getting started

Generate certificate for the vpn server, can optionally be used as CA.

$ openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 1825 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout HOSTNAME.key -out HOSTNAME.crt

Generate openvpn tls-auth key

$ openvpn --genkey --secret ta.key

Generate Diffie-Hellman key

$ openssl dhparam -out dh2048.pem 2048

Generate vpn configs

$ python ./generate_configs.py

Start openvpn

$ sudo openvpn --config server-generated.conf