security/openvpn 2.6.14 DragonFly

Secure IP/Ethernet tunnel daemon

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv2
Categories: net, net-vpn, security
Package size: 617.3 KiB, 1898.0 KiB installed

Description

OpenVPN is a robust, scalable and highly configurable VPN (Virtual Private Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private networks using an encrypted tunnel over the internet. It can operate over UDP or TCP, can use SSL or a pre-shared secret to authenticate peers, and in SSL mode, one server can handle many clients.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

security/openvpn

2.6.14

FreeBSD

security/openvpn

2.7.8

OpenBSD

net/openvpn

2.7.8

NetBSD

net/openvpn

2.7.7

MidnightBSD

security/openvpn

2.6.14_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install openvpn

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/security/openvpn && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 5

Required by 3

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

Edit /etc/rc.conf[.local] to start OpenVPN automatically at system
startup. See /usr/local/etc/rc.d/openvpn for details.

Connect to VPN server as a client with this command to include
the client.up/down scripts in the initialization:
openvpn-client <spec>.ovpn

For compatibility notes when interoperating with older OpenVPN
versions, please see <http://openvpn.net/relnotes.html>

Note that OpenVPN does not officially support LibreSSL.

Note that OpenVPN configures a separate user and group "openvpn",
which should be used instead of the NFS user "nobody"
when an unprivileged user account is desired.

You may want to add user openvpn and group openvpn when creating your
configuration files, the example configuration shows this only as comments.

Note that OpenVPN now configures a separate user and group "openvpn",
which should be used instead of the NFS user "nobody"
when an unprivileged user account is desired.

It is advisable to review existing configuration files and
to consider adding/changing user openvpn and group openvpn.