Personal VPN on Fedora

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 08/23/2011 10:51 PM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
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> 2011/8/23 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com
> <mailto:Jmlevick at gmail.com>>
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> 2011/8/22 admin lewis <adminlewis at gmail.com 
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> 2011/8/20 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com 
> <mailto:Jmlevick at gmail.com>>:
>> Hi there:
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>> I was wondering if is there something like Hotspot Shield or
> TunnelBear for
>> Linux or if not, How can I easily mount a VPN connection in
>> Fedora? Have been reading a lot, but it's quite difficult :S 
>> OpenVPN is too difficult to Setup and Tor is not what I'm
> looking for.
>> Any advice?
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> Try to download/install some gui for openvpn
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> openvpn-admin.noarch : OpenVPN-Admin is a multiplatform GUI for 
> OpenVPN. stonevpn.noarch : Easy OpenVPN certificate and
> configuration management
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> to install (from root): # yum install openvpn-admin
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> then configure openvpn from gui.. anyway openvpn is the easiest way
> to connect a vpn.. dont forget u can connect to a vpn by the
> NetworkManager too cheers lewis
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> VPN Mounting on fedora is a little painful... Using any method. At
> the end I found what I needed but it just seem to work in Ubuntu 
> and not in Fedora. However, As I'm going to recieve some "Acer
> Aspire Revo" PC's (one for personal use) to transform them into
> different kinds of Linux Servers, I decided that Mounting an
> OpenVPN installation "for once in a lifetime" in order to use it
> whenever it is needed is worth the time it requires,
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> Thanks!
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> -- Manuel Escudero Linux User #509052 Twitter: @Jmlevick
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> UPDATE on this issue:
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> With "At the end I found what I needed" I was refering
> to"Hostizzle" wich is a service that provide you with free OpenVPN
> certificates and configuration files, installing OpenVPN package
> from repos & the lastest Kvpnc on the machine (built from source
> this one) I was able to connect to an external hosted VPN just like
> with Hotspot Shield or TunnelBear using the package that
> "Hostizzle" provide to you...
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> Hostizzle Provide you with 100GB of monthly VPN bandwidth, an USA
> IP adress, connection encryption with blowfish SSL/TLS of 1024 Bits
> and other interesting stuff.
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> The thing worked at the end in Fedora too, just had to use the
> lastest version of OpenVPN Client "Kvpnc" and disable SELinux; (Set
> it to permissive mode, after using the VPN I switch to enforcing
> always). The Point is, If it works on Fedora and Ubuntu, I bet this
> solution can work in any distro.
> 

Your SELinux problems are most likely with the cert files being
mislabeled.  If you put the certs in ~/.pki or ~/.cert, and run
restorecon on the file everything should work.


> Hope this helps someone out there.
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> P.S. More info, the tutorial and even a video of my "investigation"
> are in here:
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> http://xenodesystems.blogspot.com/2011/08/al-fin-hotspot-shieldtunnelbear-en.html
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>  (in spanish) go there if you want to know more ;)
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> C'ya!
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> -- Manuel Escudero Linux User #509052 Twitter: @Jmlevick
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