Try /usr/sbin/openvpn
Julf
On 03/04/2025 21:16, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
>> 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
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Re: [DNG] Network Manager and VPN
