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I made a simple OpenVPN Manager for Linux

Hey everybody!

I wrote this OpenVPN Manager because I needed to maintain OpenVPN servers for work.

I wanted something simple that could handle the common tasks without having to remember a lot of commands or manually edit configuration files.

GitHub: https://github.com/cirtron/OpenVPN-Manager

It's a single Bash script with a menu-based interface. It currently supports:

Installing and configuring OpenVPN
Creating VPN users and .ovpn files
Revoking users properly with CRL
Listing and regenerating client configurations
Checking server and client status
Restarting or removing the OpenVPN server
NAT and firewall configuration
Multiple Linux distributions

The client configuration is generated as a single .ovpn file with the required certificates and keys included.

I originally built it just for my own work, mainly to make maintenance easier and reduce repetitive manual work. After making a few improvements, I decided to put it on GitHub in case it is useful to someone else.

It's a relatively small project, but I'd be happy to hear any feedback or suggestions.

u/wahwahwong — 4 days ago

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Run shell script when OpenVPN connects (route-up) on Fedora 44

I'm on Fedora 44 and using an OpenVPN tunnel configured in NetworkManager. This tunnel is working fine in general. The connection is to a private server for a company portal.

When I'm using OpenVPN on Windows 🤮 the ovpn config file has the option --route-up in it that executes a script/batch file.

When configuring the connection in NetworkManager VPN dialog there isn't an option to configure the route-up option.

I'm aware that I also need to set the script-security option to allow scripts to execute, which also doesn't exist. I know that running scripts is classes as a security risk but in this case it just opens a web page to a status page hosted by the VPN Server.

Apart from running OpenVPN from the command line, is there a way the it can be configured through the NetworkManager config options.

I've tried adding the options directly to the NM config file but that doesn't work either. I think this is more of a Fedora/Gnome issue than an OpenVPN issue.

Any ideas to get a script to execute on VPN connect?

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u/shoulditdothat — 9 days ago

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TLS-Crypt vs TLS-Crypt-V2

Looking at tweaking the config on my OpenVPN server. It's currently configured to use tls-crypt but wondering if its worth changing to use tls-crypt-v2.

I've had a play and got both working, I'm just wondering what the benefits of changing to tls-crypt-v2 are over sticking with the older tls-crypt apart from the 'use v2 its newer and shiny'. Looking for technical reasons to change and justify the time spent reconfiguring things.

Currently using a bit of a mish-mash of versions the community versions from 2.5.x to the latest 2.7 on Windows, Linux and some GSM routers.

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u/shoulditdothat — 7 days ago