How-To: OpenVPN on Debian Squeeze with Username/Password authentication
Posted by chantra on 16th January 2013
OpenVPN is a SSL based VPN software that runs on most OS. It is simple to install and run.
In this tutorial, I will go over the steps needed to configure OpenVPN on Debian Squeeze to provide a full VPN tunnel, this is particularly useful when you want to access internet from non-trusted networks such as free hotspots…
There are many ways of setting up OpenVPN, a common one is to use a unique certificate for each users. Another one is to have each user authenticate with a username/password.
In this article, we will be setting OpenVPN to authenticate users using PAM.
Tags: network, openvpn, security, system, vpn
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