📅 2025-06-23 — Session: Configured VPN and Resolved OpenVPN Issues

🕒 00:40–01:25
🏷️ Labels: VPN, Openvpn, Networking, Security, Debian, Ubuntu
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to configure a VPN connection using a .p12 certificate and resolve various OpenVPN configuration issues.

Key Activities

  • Provided a guide for connecting to a VPN using a .p12 certificate, including prerequisites and step-by-step instructions for both OpenVPN and IKEv2.
  • Diagnosed and solved installation errors on Debian/Ubuntu systems related to package installation without superuser privileges.
  • Corrected errors in the OpenVPN client.ovpn configuration file, specifically addressing incorrect use of --cert and --pkcs12 parameters.
  • Offered instructions for resolving OpenVPN host address errors, including editing configuration files and optional settings for suppressing warnings.

Achievements

  • Successfully configured a VPN connection using a .p12 certificate.
  • Resolved common configuration errors in OpenVPN settings.

Pending Tasks

  • No pending tasks were identified during this session.