README

   1 OpenVPN -- A Secure tunneling daemon
   2
   3 Copyright (C) 2002-2022 OpenVPN Inc. This program is free software;
   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 *************************************************************************
   9
  10 To get the latest release of OpenVPN, go to:
  11
  12         https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/
  13
  14 To Build and Install,
  15
  16         tar -zxf openvpn-<version>.tar.gz
  17         cd openvpn-<version>
  18         ./configure
  19         make
  20         make install
  21
  22 or see the file INSTALL for more info.
  23
  24 For information on how to build OpenVPN on/for Windows with MinGW
  25 or MSVC see README.cmake.md.
  26
  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
  34
  35 To report an issue, see
  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)
  40
  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
  48 * configure.ac -- script to rebuild our configure
  49   script and makefile.
  50
  51 * sample/sample-scripts/verify-cn
  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
  57 * sample/sample-keys/
  58
  59   Sample RSA keys and certificates.  DON'T USE THESE FILES
  60   FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN TESTING BECAUSE THEY ARE TOTALLY INSECURE.
  61
  62 * sample/sample-config-files/
  63
  64   A collection of OpenVPN config files and scripts from
  65   the HOWTO at http://openvpn.net/howto.html
  66
  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
  73   https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6
  74
  75 Community-provided Windows installers (MSI) and Debian packages are built from
  76
  77   https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build
  78
  79 See the INSTALL file for usage information.