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The connection to OpenVPN server on on CentOS 8.2.
- To connect to the VM, you should generate a “Private Key” in advance. This can be done using the following instruction (by choosing the “file format:” option “.ppk” in point 3)
Guide – How To – Create and use Key Pair to connect to a VM
- Download and run Putty
- Go to the “SSH” section in the left panel and then to “Auth”.
- In the “Auth” section, click “Browse” and specify the path to the .ppk file you received earlier.
- Go to the home page of “Session”, enter the IP address of the VM and click “Open”.
- In the opened console you will need to enter the login ubuntu
- Next, you should enter the following commands:
> sudo vpnusers
- To create a new user type “1” and press Enter
- Write a user name and press Enter
- The last line will tell you where the config file is available (exampleuser.ovpn in this case)
- You need to copy the contents of this file. To do this, display the contents of the file on the screen with the following command::
> cat exampleuser.ovpn
Don’t forget to replace “exampleuser” with the username that was created in step 9
- Copy the entire contents of the file by selecting it and pressing Ctrl + C
- Open Notepad or any other text editor and paste the contents of the file into a blank document
- Save the file with the extension .ovpn
- Run OpenVPN GUI. If you don’t have OpenVPN installed you can download it here.
- Click on the “Show hidden icons” and right mouse button on the OpenVPN GUI.
- Go to the “Settings – Advanced” and in the “Configuration Files – Folder” specify the path to the file that you unpacked from the archive and click “OK”.
- Right click on OpenVPN GUI again, point on the connection that appears and click Connect
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