Gentoo/OpenVPN Non Root

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OpenVPN Client Non Root

End result, user can use own tool (I use knemo) to connect/disconnect from net-misc/openvpn.

The logic is to create tun device and allow users to access it, and wrapping the /sbin/ip using sudo.

The control of the daemon is done using the OpenVPN management interface.

Setup

Linux Kernel Configuration: Add tap
  Device Drivers  ---> 
    [*] Network device support  --->
      <M>   Universal TUN/TAP device driver support
emerge net-misc/openvpn net-dns/openresolv

net-dns/openresolv is optional, but makes life much easier, see Gentoo/Openresolv.

It is very recommended to configure firewall on your computer, see firehol configuration.

Add:

File: /etc/conf.d/net
rc_net_vpn0_need="firewall" # optional, if you setup firewall.
rc_net_vpn0_provide="!net"
tuntap_vpn0="tun"
iproute2_vpn0="group users"
config_vpn0="null"
txqueuelen_vpn0="100"
metric_vpn0="1"
ln -s net.lo /etc/init.d/net.vpn0 rc-update add net.vpn0 default /etc/init.d/net.vpn0 start
File: ~/openvpn/my-ip
#!/bin/sh
sudo /sbin/ip $@
File: ~/openvpn/my-up.sh
#!/bin/sh
script="${0//my-}"
if [ ${EUID} != 0 ] ; then
        if [[ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]] ; then
                echo "" | sudo -p "" -S /etc/openvpn/"${script}" "$@"
                exit $?
        fi
        echo "You need configure sudo to run $0" >&2
        exit 1
else
        /etc/openvpn/"${script}" "$@"
        exit $?
fi
ln -s my-up.sh ~/openvpn/my-down.sh
File: ~/openvpn/server.conf
Add:
dev-type tun
dev vpn0
daemon
up my-up.sh
down my-down.sh
iproute my-ip
up-delay
up-restart
down-pre
script-security 2
auth-retry nointeract
management-signal
management 127.0.0.1 2222
management-query-passwords
management-forget-disconnect
remap-usr1 SIGTERM
File: /etc/sudoers.d/openvpn
Defaults        env_keep += "foreign_option_1"
Defaults        env_keep += "foreign_option_2"
Defaults        env_keep += "foreign_option_3"
Defaults        env_keep += "foreign_option_4"
Defaults        env_keep += "foreign_option_5"
Defaults        env_keep += "dev"

%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/openvpn/up.sh
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /etc/openvpn/down.sh
%users ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/ip

Until bug 391175 is resolved, update the following to have DNS lookup of vpn0 be prioritized:

File: /etc/resolvconf.conf
interface_order="lo lo[0-9]* vpn*"

Dialogs

Fetch openvpn-kde-dialogs.pl from [here], and customize. Usually comment out

#use MIME::Base64;
#use Crypt::X509;
emerge dev-perl/Net-Telnet

knemo

Context menu

Start:

( /usr/sbin/openvpn --cd /home/user/openvpn --config server.conf & ); exec /home/user/openvpn/openvpn-kde-dialogs.pl 2222 1

Stop:

killall openvpn

Maintainer

Alon Bar-Lev

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Originally written by: Alon Bar-Lev - 2011-11-17


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