I am trying to make a OpenVPN solution of my Ubuntu 20.04 VM. I found that there are two clients which can connect to OpenVPN server (running in pfSense), one is network-manager-gnome and the other is openvpn3.
For the network-manager-gnome, I can import the .ovpn file but I cannot connect to the OpenVPN server using the profile. Then I try the openvpn3, which require command-line to make it work, and it is able to connect to the OpenVPN server. I also find that the openvpn3-autoload can be used to connect to OpenVPN server by a single command.
However, I want to make an automatically solution which the desktop can connect to the OpenVPN server on startup without any manually action. I would like to know if there is a solution to do this job.
Thank you.
1 Answer
Found the solution.
Although I had read and follow the guide (), I forget to run "systemctl daemon-reload"
Without this command, the systemd don't know there is a new service file
First, we need to follow the guide to make a directory, copy the client.ovpn files and make the client.autoload files for the openvpn3-autoload service
Remind to edit the privilege
chmod 600 $HOME/.openvpn3/autoload/.ovpn && chmod 600 $HOME/.openvpn3/autoload/.autoload
Then copy the service file
sudo cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/openvpn3-autoload.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/myvpn.service
and edit the service file to add the user and change the default configuration directory
sudo vim /usr/lib/systemd/system/myvpn.service
[Unit]
Description=OpenVPN 3 Linux configuration auto loader and starter
After=network.target dbus.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
User=myusername
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn3-autoload --directory /home/myusername/.openvpn3/autoload
RemainAfterExit=yes
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Reload the daemon again, enable and start the service
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable myvpn.service
systemctl start myvpn.service
Reboot the VM and confirm the result
