OpenVPN Rapid Installer

Install and configure OpenVPN including certificates in less than one minute

• Express installation and configuration of OpenVPN, this has been tested on any recent Debian, Ubuntu and Raspian releases.
• Enjoy the wide range of supported OpenVPN Clients, with this Script you may quickly establish a VPN connection, compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Android and iOS
  
• Install and configure OpenVPN together with a Certification Authority and X509 Client Certificates with one single command,
  
• Optional journaling

Additional Tools

• ovpncert
  • Create new ovpn profiles and certificates on the fly
  • Revoke ovpn certificates on the fly
• ovpnreport
  • Search the journal for login activity, users or ip-addresses
  • List current connections

Installation Samples

Basic with no options

Install and configure OpenVPN with Easy-RSA

• Default udp port 1194
• Default network 10.8.0.0/24
• Automatically installation (-a)

#Copy&Paste
wget -q https://coolscript.org/download/scripts/openvpn/openvpn-install.sh -O \
/tmp/openvpn-install.sh && bash \
/tmp/openvpn-install.sh -a

Custom Network Installation

Install and configure OpenVPN with Easy-RSA

• Use tcp port 1194 (-o and -p)
• Use your custom network 192.168.200.0/24 (-n and -m)
• Automatically installation (-a)
• Reinstallation if a previous setup exists (-r)

#Copy&Paste
wget -q https://coolscript.org/download/scripts/openvpn/openvpn-install.sh -O \
/tmp/openvpn-install.sh && bash \
/tmp/openvpn-install.sh -a -r \
-o 1194 \
-p tcp \
-n 192.168.200.0 \
-m 24

Recommend - Support local users and journaling

Install and configure OpenVPN with Easy-RSA

• Default udp port 1194
• Default network 10.8.0.0/24
• Automatically installation (-a)
• Reinstallation if a previous setup exists (-r)
• Enable additional authentication using local user (-u)
• Enable journaling (-j)

#Copy&Paste
wget -q https://coolscript.org/download/scripts/openvpn/openvpn-install.sh -O \
/tmp/openvpn-install.sh && bash \
/tmp/openvpn-install.sh -a -r -u -j

Available Arguments

openvpn-install.sh -h
-a Mandatory Flag, Automatic installation, otherwise do nothing than STDOUT
-h Optional Flag, help and exit
-j Optional Flag, Enable jthe journaling
-m Optional String, Network mask set in decimal format, default is $defCIDR bit
-n Optional String, Network Address, default is $defNET
-o Optional String, port, default is $defPort
-p Optional String, protocol (tcp or udp), default is $defProto 
-r Optional Flag, Re-Install application
-u Optional Flag, enforce additional user authentication through local PAM