This page is intended for Savannah hackers (as well as other folks) who require access to Savannah's VPN.

In order to use the vpn, you will need to email savannah-hackers-private -AT- gnu.org requesting a key.

Once a key is generated for you, you will receive your key via email (encrypted via gpg).

Steps to setup VPN

Requirements:

• OpenVPN (http://openvpn.net/download.html, which requires LZO, http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/)

Configuration files:

/wherever/savannah.conf (change paths):

client
dev tun
proto tcp
remote vpn.savannah.gnu.org 443
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca /path-to-your-keys/savannah-ca.crt
cert /path-to-your-keys/YOUR_USER_NAME.crt
key /path-to-your-keys/YOUR_USER_NAME.key
ns-cert-type server
comp-lzo
verb 1
auth-user-pass

• It's worth noting that you can put a file after the "auth-user-pass" directive which contains your username/password (on two lines)
• The username/password used here is your savannah username and password.

Start VPN:

• To start a vpn connection, as root, type "openvpn --config /wherever/savannah.conf"
• Then you will have routes to various hosts.

subtopics:

• VPNConfiguration