OpenVPN on Chromebook with Private Internet Access

Scripts to manage certificates or generate config files

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matthewmck
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OpenVPN on Chromebook with Private Internet Access

Post by matthewmck » Fri Oct 09, 2015 3:44 am

Hi,

I recently purchased a new Chromebook, and I am looking to get OpenVPN configured on it.

I have read a few tutorials on how to configure OpenVPN on a Chromebook, but all assume that one has a server running OpenVPN. They seem to need a client.crt, client.key and ta.key.

Private Internet Access provide a ca.crt and *.ovpn files for the server of your choice. On the OpenVPN iOS client, I log in using a username and password combination. I did have to import the ca.crt and *.ovpn file into the App. I have attached a sample *.ovpn file.

I have for a few days now to get this working without any success.

I would really appreciate it if someone could assist me in this matter. I can get an L2TP connection established, but I would really prefer to have the security that OpenVPN offers, on what is now my main machine.

us-east.ovpn:

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client
dev tun
proto udp
remote us-east.privateinternetaccess.com 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
tls-client
remote-cert-tls server
auth-user-pass
comp-lzo
verb 1
reneg-sec 0
crl-verify crl.pem


pippo0312
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Re: OpenVPN on Chromebook with Private Internet Access

Post by pippo0312 » Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:13 am

If you put your chromebook in developer mode, you can you directly the .ovpn configuration file from the command line.
Have a look https://goo.gl/Rf7O9g for a working script

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