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Set up an OpenVPN server
- [Instructor] While various products can offer OpenVPN server services, in this video I'll take a look at using the official OpenVPN access server software directly from OpenVPN. You can get it from the OpenVPN site and in this video I'll follow the instructions to set up my Ubuntu system as an OpenVPN server. From the main site I'll mouse over Business VPN and choose Software Packages. Then I'll scroll down, click Ubuntu, and copy the link for the version that I need. Then on my server I'll download that file. I'll install it with dpkg -i and the name of the package file. Once the software's been installed I'll need to set an initial administrative password by typing passwd openvpn. Then I'll switch to my browser and navigate to the administrative webpage for this server. I'll log in with the OpenVPN user and the password that I just set. Then I'll click Sign In. Here in the Status Overview I can see the status of the server. I'll click on User Management, User Permissions, and I'll…
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