<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>OpenVpnUbuntu1204</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2013-04-23 09:09:17</date><authorinitials>akrevl</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2013-04-18 22:05:52</date><authorinitials>akrevl</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>OpenVPN on Ubuntu 12.04</title><para>This howto was prepared and tested on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 12.04 64 bit. </para><section><title>Install the client</title><para><emphasis role="strong">1)</emphasis> Install OpenVPN. </para><screen><![CDATA[sudo apt-get install openvpn]]></screen></section><section><title>Set up the connection</title><para><emphasis role="strong">2)</emphasis> Unzip the file named <emphasis>USERNAME_linux.zip</emphasis>. </para><screen><![CDATA[mkdir ~/openvpn
cd ~/openvpn/
unzip /path/to/your/file/USERNAME_linux.zip]]></screen><para><emphasis role="strong">3)</emphasis> Start the connection by running the script startVPN.sh. Make sure you run it as root so it can setup the routing table. </para><screen><![CDATA[sudo ~/openvpn/startVPN.sh]]></screen><para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata fileref="http://snap.stanford.edu/moin//moin/OpenVpnUbuntu1204?action=AttachFile&amp;do=get&amp;target=01.png"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>01.png</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> </para><para><emphasis role="strong">4)</emphasis> If you want to terminate the connection press Ctrl+C in the command line window where your connection is running. </para></section><section><title>References</title><para>!!!TBD!!! </para><para><ulink url="http://plone.4aero.com/Members/lmarzke/howto/openvpn-push-dns"/> <ulink url="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVPN"/> <ulink url="http://askubuntu.com/questions/147300/help-connecting-openvpn-in-ubuntu-12-04"/> <ulink url="http://askubuntu.com/questions/29086/where-are-vpn-configuration-files-imported-by-network-manager-saved"/> <ulink url="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1019222"/> <ulink url="http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Openvpn"/> <ulink url="http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=39153"/> </para></section></section></article>