OpenVPN Autoconnect - Using PIA

Autoconnect PIA VPN on Boot

Create the OpenVPN autoconnect init.d startup script file

• sudo vim /etc/init.d/openvpnauto

Paste this OpenVPN autoconnect startup script, if you do not want to use Sweden.ovpn then replace it in the DAEMON_OPTS line

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          OpenVPN Autoconnect
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: OpenVPN Autoconnect
# Description:       OpenVPN Autoconnect
### END INIT INFO


# Documentation available at
# http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptfunc.html
# Debian provides some extra functions though
. /lib/lsb/init-functions


DAEMON_NAME="openvpnauto"
DAEMON_USER=root
DAEMON_PATH="/usr/sbin/openvpn"
DAEMON_OPTS="--config /etc/openvpn/Sweden.ovpn --auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/login.txt"
DAEMON_PWD="/etc/openvpn"
DAEMON_DESC=$(get_lsb_header_val $0 "Short-Description")
DAEMON_PID="/var/run/${DAEMON_NAME}.pid"
DAEMON_NICE=0
DAEMON_LOG='/var/log/openvpnauto.log'

[ -r "/etc/default/${DAEMON_NAME}" ] && . "/etc/default/${DAEMON_NAME}"

do_start() {
  local result

    pidofproc -p "${DAEMON_PID}" "${DAEMON_PATH}" > /dev/null
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        log_warning_msg "${DAEMON_NAME} is already started"
        result=0
    else
        log_daemon_msg "Starting ${DAEMON_DESC}" "${DAEMON_NAME}"
        touch "${DAEMON_LOG}"
        chown $DAEMON_USER "${DAEMON_LOG}"
        chmod u+rw "${DAEMON_LOG}"
        if [ -z "${DAEMON_USER}" ]; then
            start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --background \
                --nicelevel $DAEMON_NICE \
                --chdir "${DAEMON_PWD}" \
                --pidfile "${DAEMON_PID}" --make-pidfile \
                --exec "${DAEMON_PATH}" -- $DAEMON_OPTS
            result=$?
        else
            start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --background \
                --nicelevel $DAEMON_NICE \
                --chdir "${DAEMON_PWD}" \
                --pidfile "${DAEMON_PID}" --make-pidfile \
                --chuid "${DAEMON_USER}" \
                --exec "${DAEMON_PATH}" -- $DAEMON_OPTS
            result=$?
        fi
        log_end_msg $result
    fi
    return $result
}

do_stop() {
    local result

    pidofproc -p "${DAEMON_PID}" "${DAEMON_PATH}" > /dev/null
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        log_warning_msg "${DAEMON_NAME} is not started"
        result=0
    else
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping ${DAEMON_DESC}" "${DAEMON_NAME}"
        killproc -p "${DAEMON_PID}" "${DAEMON_PATH}"
        result=$?
        log_end_msg $result
        rm "${DAEMON_PID}"
    fi
    return $result
}

do_restart() {
    local result
    do_stop
    result=$?
    if [ $result = 0 ]; then
        do_start
        result=$?
    fi
    return $result
}

do_status() {
    local result
    status_of_proc -p "${DAEMON_PID}" "${DAEMON_PATH}" "${DAEMON_NAME}"
    result=$?
    return $result
}

do_usage() {
    echo $"Usage: $0 {start {{!}} stop {{!}} restart {{!}} status}"
    exit 1
}

case "$1" in
start)   do_start;   exit $? ;;
stop)    do_stop;    exit $? ;;
restart) do_restart; exit $? ;;
status)  do_status;  exit $? ;;
*)       do_usage;   exit  1 ;;
esac

Enable the OpenVPN PIA Autoconnect script

• sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/openvpnauto
• sudo systemctl enable openvpnauto

& for some reason I've forgotten:

• sudo update-rc.d openvpnauto defaults 98

Now you can connect to PIA’s VPN automatically by running

• sudo service openvpnauto start

You can retest your IP to verify it’s not your ISP’s IP address

• wget http://ipinfo.io/ip -qO -

If it is not your regular IP shown on whatsmyip.org then you can reboot and test your IP address again

• sudo reboot

Test your IP again and compare it to whatsmyip.org’s result

• wget http://ipinfo.io/ip -qO -

Now you’ve set up installing and autoconnecting to Private Internet Access VPN on Linux on boot