[HOWTO] OSMC/Rasp Pi as OpenVPN client

[BigSnicker]

@Lanimul

I’ve got this rough tutorial for a openvpn client that Ive gotten to work,

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openvpn

cd /etc/openvpn

add .ovpn file to dir /etc/openvpn
Add lines to .ovpn for user/pass

sudo sed -i '/auth-user-pass/cauth-user-pass user.txt' *.ovpn

sudo nano user.txt

In this file create only two lines of text
username(your username)
password(your password)
press crtl+x to save the file then press y and enter.

Since the file we have created contains sensitive info we need to ensure that only the user that created the file can read and write to it. Type:

sudo chmod go-rwx user.txt

Rename ovpn file, vpn.conf
Start/Enable Service

sudo systemctl enable openvpn@vpn.service
sudo systemctl start openvpn@vpn.service

Check status:

Type:

curl http://checkip.dyndns.org

FYI, after reading this whole thread and trying a few different approaches, this method ended up being the easiest for me to get OpenVPN working on my OSMC/Raspberry Pi 3. Notably, I couldn’t get the openVPN kodi plug-in working at all.

The only slight variation, since I was modifying the *.opvn file using vi to include the path for the password file, like odin_smash:

auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/pass.txt

P.S. For some reason, ‘sudo systemctl enable openvpn@vpn.service sudo systemctl start openvpn@vpn.service’ is getting put on one line whereas it should be two seperate commands.