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= Setting Up OpenVPN & PIA as a client = | = Setting Up OpenVPN & PIA as a client = | ||
Revision as of 14:22, 16 September 2025
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Setting Up OpenVPN & PIA as a client
(In actual fact... This set of steps is applicable to pretty much any Debian-derived system if you skip the first step...)
A note about doing this on an LXC
Something you may have noticed if you've been playing about with LXCs for a bit... Sometimes, to do tricks, you have to jump through a hoop or two.
On the PVE host:
(Replace VMID with the actual VMID of the container you're working on, of course...)
vi /etc/pve/lxc/VMID.conf
Add these 2 lines to the containers configuration
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 10:200 rwm lxc.mount.entry: /dev/net dev/net none bind,create=dir
Reboot the container
install openvpn & the PIA files (On the LXC container)
- sudo apt install openvpn unzip whois
- sudo mkdir /etc/openvpn/PIA
- cd /etc/openvpn/PIA
- sudo wget https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip
- sudo unzip openvpn.zip
Configure openvpn (On the LXC container)
- cd /etc/openvpn
- Copy the exit point you like from inside PIA here & change the extension to .conf
- sudo cp PIA/ukraine.ovpn ./ukraine.conf # an example...
- Edit the .conf file and remove the <crl-verify> block. (For some reason openvpn thinks PIAs CRL blocks are ALWAYS malformed...)
- Add /etc/openvpn/auth.txt to the line: auth-user-pass
- auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/auth.txt # like this...
- Copy the exit point you like from inside PIA here & change the extension to .conf
- sudo vi auth.txt
- copy your PIA username & password into this file (on 2 lines...)
- Bob
- SecretSquirrel!
- copy your PIA username & password into this file (on 2 lines...)
- sudo vi /etc/default/openvpn
- uncomment the #AUTOSTART="all" line
- sudo service openvpn start
From this point on, accessing the internet from the LXC will go through your chosen PIA exit point.
It may take a moment or two to initialise fully. And, startup of the LXC may seem a little slow. But patience is a virtue...
Testing
- wget http://ipinfo.io/ip -qO -
Should give you an IP address that does NOT match your actual external IP
- whois `wget http://ipinfo.io/ip -qO -`
Will give you a wall-o-text. In that wall-o-text, you'll find the country code of where ipinfo.io thinks you are. (This, of course, should match your chosen exit point...)