[ale] OpenVPN Question

[Jerry Yu]

glad to learn the Launcher works again. At some older release, it became
extreme hard (if impossible) to use arbitrary command strings.

On 11/3/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 16:04 -0500, John Mills wrote:
> > ALErs -
> >
> > I will be trying out 'openvpn-2.0.9' from a Linux laptop and have a
> > couple of questions:
> >
> > 1. I have file set with certificate, etc., for the connection. Where is
> it
> > appropriate to save this, and with what permissions?
>
> /etc/openvpn/  owned by root, with 0600 perms.
>
> >
> > 2. As a client I would like to open and close the tunnel manually (by
> > screen widget for example). How can I achieve this?
>
> I use this command from a Gnome Panel launcher:
>
>   xterm -T "OpenVPN" -e "sudo openvpn /etc/openvpn/vpn.conf"
>
> That will open, and keep open, an xterm that I click on and hit CTRL-C
> when I want to close the vpn connection.
>
> make sure that you set /etc/sudoers (run "visudo" as root) to properly
> add "openvpn" as a command for your userid like this:
>
>    jimpop ALL= /usr/sbin/openvpn
>
> or like this if you don't want to be bothered for your password each
> time:
>
>    jimpop ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/openvpn
>
> hth,
>
> -Jim P.
>
>
>
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