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1OpenVPN -- A Secure tunneling daemon
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564a2109 3Copyright (C) 2002-2010 OpenVPN Technologies, Inc. This program is free software;
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4you can redistribute it and/or modify
5it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
6as published by the Free Software Foundation.
7
8*************************************************************************
9
10For the latest version of OpenVPN, go to:
11
12 http://openvpn.net/
13
14To Build and Install,
15
16 ./configure
17 make
18 make install
19
20or see the file INSTALL for more info.
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24For detailed information on OpenVPN, including examples, see the man page
25 http://openvpn.net/man.html
26
27For a sample VPN configuration, see
28 http://openvpn.net/howto.html
29
30For a description of OpenVPN's underlying protocol,
31 see the file ssl.h included in the source distribution.
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35Other Files & Directories:
36
37* INSTALL-win32.txt -- installation instructions
38 for Windows
39
40* configure.ac -- script to rebuild our configure
41 script and makefile.
42
43* openvpn.spec -- RPM Spec file
44 To build an OpenVPN binary RPM, use the command:
45
46 rpmbuild -tb [tarball]
47
48 When you install the binary RPM, it will automatically
49 install sample-scripts/openvpn.init (see below)
50
51* sample-scripts/openvpn.init
52
53 A sample init script for OpenVPN. See the file for
54 comments and additional information.
55
56* sample-scripts/verify-cn
57
58 A sample perl script which can be used with OpenVPN's
59 --tls-verify option to provide a customized authentication
60 test on embedded X509 certificate fields.
61
62* sample-keys/
63
64 Sample RSA keys and certificates. DON'T USE THESE FILES
65 FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN TESTING BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY INSECURE.
66
67* sample-config-files/
68
69 A collection of OpenVPN config files and scripts from
70 the HOWTO at http://openvpn.net/howto.html
71
72* easy-rsa/
73
74 A simple guide to RSA key management, scripts included.
75 Also see http://openvpn.net/easyrsa.html