:: Re: [DNG] Network Manager and VPN
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Skribent: Haines Brown
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Til: dng
Emne: Re: [DNG] Network Manager and VPN
> Hi,
> you don't need Networkmanager to run a vpn (even if it makes 
> it more comfortable at a first glance). Running a vpn is as easy as:
> 1) open a terminal
> 2) get root permissions with su or use sudo
> 3)  run:  "openvpn --config /home/somedir/somefile.ovpn"
> 4) when you are done with the vpn hit Ctrl-C in the terminal 
>     and everything (routing , etc...) will be reset  as before.


Tito, thanks for the encouragement. I installed openvpn, created
~/openvpn/config.ovpn (I inferrfed that the location and the name of
the .ovpn file is arbitary). I then do # openvpn --config
/home/openvpn/config.vpn. But command unknown.

Where am I going wrong?

Haines