[PLUG] Roll-your-own VPN server?

[Tomas Kuchta]

OpenVPN does what you need. There are good clients for almost any device.

Servers, can be build and configured on any distro or used prebuild.

Tomas

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018, 5:44 AM David Barr <dafydd at dafydd.com> wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> If I were to build a VPN server for transient client connections, like
> mobile devices or laptops, what would you recommend?
>
> - Bonus points for using certificates for the server ~and clients~, so
> devices would have to be "registered" in advance.
> - Bonus points for requiring 2FA on top of that, to reduce the risk of a
> lost/stolen device.
>
> I haven't looked in a while, but I recall OpenVPN was really oriented
> towards setting up permanent connections, and configuring for transient
> connections was really convoluted.
>
> Thanks!
> David
>
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