Setting Up OpenVPN

• Install OpenVPN
• Download the OpenVPN configurations from the VPN provider
• Place all the configurations in /etc/openvpn directory
• Pick two TCP and UDP server configurations and if the files contains .ovpn extension, make them .conf extension

sudo mv /etc/openvpn/server1.ovpn /etc/openvpn/server1.conf

• Start the systemd services to connect to the server

sudo systemctl enable --now openvpn@server1

• Systemd will prompt to get the username. Enter the username from the VPN provider
• Run following in another terminal and enter the password

sudo systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

• Now the service should be running