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1.7.1. Linux Network-Manager GUI for OpenVPN
Many Linux distributions including Ubuntu desktop variants come with Network Manager, a nice GUI to configure your network settings. It also can manage your VPN connections. Make sure you have package network-manager-openvpn installed. Here you see that the installation installs all other required packages as well:
root@client:~# apt install network-manager-openvpn Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
liblzo2-2 libpkcs11-helper1 network-manager-openvpn-gnome openvpn Suggested packages:
resolvconf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
liblzo2-2 libpkcs11-helper1 network-manager-openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome openvpn
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 631 not upgraded. Need to get 700 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,031 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
To inform network-manager about the new installed packages you will have to restart it:
root@client:~# restart network-manager network-manager start/running, process 3078
Open the Network Manager GUI, select the VPN tab and then the 'Add' button. Select OpenVPN as the VPN type in the opening requester and press 'Create'. In the next window add the OpenVPN's server name as the 'Gateway', set 'Type' to 'Certificates (TLS)', point 'User Certificate' to your user certificate, 'CA Certificate' to your CA certificate and 'Private Key' to your private key file. Use the advanced button to enable compression (e.g. comp-lzo), dev tap, or other special settings you set on the server. Now try to establish your VPN.