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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en-GB"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:47, 14 September 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">You'll need:</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* &lt;code>sudo apt install unzip&lt;/code></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Enter the OpenVPN folder</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Enter the OpenVPN folder</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key nerdmage_wiki:diff::1.12:old-1667:rev-3856 --> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot;Enter the OpenVPN folder * &lt;code&gt;cd /etc/openvpn&lt;/code&gt; Download the Private Internet Access OpenVPN configuration files (extension .ovpn) * &lt;code&gt;sudo wget --no-check-certificate &lt;nowiki&gt;https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/code&gt; Unzip the openvpn configuration files * &lt;code&gt;sudo unzip openvpn.zip&lt;/code&gt; You can list all of the countries you can connect to with this command inside the &lt;code&gt;/etc/openvpn&lt;/code&gt; folder * &lt;code&gt;ls -lh *.o...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Enter the OpenVPN folder<br /> <br /> * &lt;code&gt;cd /etc/openvpn&lt;/code&gt;<br /> Download the Private Internet Access OpenVPN configuration files (extension .ovpn)<br /> <br /> * &lt;code&gt;sudo wget --no-check-certificate &lt;nowiki&gt;https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip&lt;/nowiki&gt;&lt;/code&gt;<br /> Unzip the openvpn configuration files<br /> <br /> * &lt;code&gt;sudo unzip openvpn.zip&lt;/code&gt;<br /> You can list all of the countries you can connect to with this command inside the &lt;code&gt;/etc/openvpn&lt;/code&gt; folder<br /> <br /> * &lt;code&gt;ls -lh *.ovpn&lt;/code&gt;<br /> See the long list, you will specify the ovpn file when you connect to Private Internet Access’s VPN servers<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 Nov 25 20:47 AU Melbourne.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 228 Nov 25 20:47 AU Sydney.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Nov 25 20:47 Brazil.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227 Nov 25 20:47 CA North York.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Nov 25 20:47 CA Toronto.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Nov 25 20:47 Denmark.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Nov 25 20:47 France.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Nov 25 20:47 Germany.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227 Nov 25 20:47 Hong Kong.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227 Nov 25 20:47 India.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Nov 25 20:47 Ireland.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Nov 25 20:47 Israel.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230 Nov 25 20:47 Italy.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230 Nov 25 20:47 Japan.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Nov 25 20:47 Mexico.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227 Nov 25 20:47 Netherlands.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227 Nov 25 20:47 New Zealand.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227 Nov 25 20:47 Romania.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Nov 25 20:47 Russia.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 227 Nov 25 20:47 Singapore.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Nov 25 20:47 Sweden.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 230 Nov 25 20:47 Switzerland.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 Nov 25 20:47 Turkey.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 234 Nov 25 20:47 UK London.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239 Nov 25 20:47 UK Southampton.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 238 Nov 25 20:47 US California.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Nov 25 20:47 US East.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Nov 25 20:47 US Florida.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Nov 25 20:47 US Midwest.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 239 Nov 25 20:47 US New York City.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235 Nov 25 20:47 US Seattle.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 241 Nov 25 20:47 US Silicon Valley.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233 Nov 25 20:47 US Texas.ovpn<br /> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232 Nov 25 20:47 US West.ovpn&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Create a login details text file so you can log on to the PIA VPN automatically<br /> <br /> * &lt;code&gt;sudo vim /etc/openvpn/login.txt&lt;/code&gt;<br /> Input your username and password, replace username with your actual username and password with your actual VPN password in this format<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;username<br /> password&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Change the permission of the login.txt file so it is only owned by root which will solve&amp;nbsp;this error&amp;nbsp;&lt;code&gt;WARNING: file &#039;/etc/openvpn/login.txt&#039; is group or others accessible&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> * &lt;code&gt;sudo chmod 700 /etc/openvpn/login.txt&lt;/code&gt;</div>

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