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1 | OpenVPN -- A Secure tunneling daemon |
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| c291c95f | 3 | Copyright (C) 2002-2022 OpenVPN Inc. This program is free software; |
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4 | you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| 5 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 | |
| 6 | as published by the Free Software Foundation. | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | ************************************************************************* | |
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| fdc24f1e | 10 | To get the latest release of OpenVPN, go to: |
| 6fbf66fa | 11 | |
| c291c95f | 12 | https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ |
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13 | |
| 14 | To Build and Install, | |
| 15 | ||
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16 | tar -zxf openvpn-<version>.tar.gz |
| 17 | cd openvpn-<version> | |
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18 | ./configure |
| 19 | make | |
| 20 | make install | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | or see the file INSTALL for more info. | |
| 23 | ||
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24 | For information on how to build OpenVPN on/for Windows with MinGW |
| 25 | or MSVC see README.cmake.md. | |
| 26 | ||
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27 | ************************************************************************* |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | For detailed information on OpenVPN, including examples, see the man page | |
| 30 | http://openvpn.net/man.html | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | For a sample VPN configuration, see | |
| 33 | http://openvpn.net/howto.html | |
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| ac2309b8 | 35 | To report an issue, see |
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36 | https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/new |
| 37 | (Note: We recently switched to GitHub for reporting new issues, | |
| 38 | old issues can be found at: | |
| 39 | https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/report) | |
| ac2309b8 | 40 | |
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41 | For a description of OpenVPN's underlying protocol, |
| 42 | see the file ssl.h included in the source distribution. | |
| 43 | ||
| 44 | ************************************************************************* | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | Other Files & Directories: | |
| 47 | ||
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48 | * configure.ac -- script to rebuild our configure |
| 49 | script and makefile. | |
| 50 | ||
| 7e0d16a9 | 51 | * sample/sample-scripts/verify-cn |
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52 | |
| 53 | A sample perl script which can be used with OpenVPN's | |
| 54 | --tls-verify option to provide a customized authentication | |
| 55 | test on embedded X509 certificate fields. | |
| 56 | ||
| 7e0d16a9 | 57 | * sample/sample-keys/ |
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58 | |
| 59 | Sample RSA keys and certificates. DON'T USE THESE FILES | |
| 60 | FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN TESTING BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY INSECURE. | |
| 61 | ||
| 7e0d16a9 | 62 | * sample/sample-config-files/ |
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63 | |
| 64 | A collection of OpenVPN config files and scripts from | |
| 65 | the HOWTO at http://openvpn.net/howto.html | |
| 66 | ||
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67 | ************************************************************************* |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | Note that easy-rsa and tap-windows are now maintained in their own subprojects. | |
| 70 | Their source code is available here: | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa | |
| c291c95f | 73 | https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6 |
| 7e0d16a9 | 74 | |
| 53055fd2 | 75 | Community-provided Windows installers (MSI) and Debian packages are built from |
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76 | |
| 77 | https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build | |
| 6fbf66fa | 78 | |
| 7e0d16a9 | 79 | See the INSTALL file for usage information. |