OpenVPN on a Mac

The classic open-source SSL/TLS VPN · VPN

OpenVPN is an open-source VPN; flexible SSL/TLS tunnels over UDP or TCP, mature certificate PKI, and clients on every platform. Install the community engine with Homebrew (brew install openvpn) for the openvpn daemon: build a CA and certs (with Easy-RSA), write a server.conf (UDP 1194) or connect a client with a .ovpn profile; sudo openvpn --config client.ovpn. On macOS the Tunnelblick app (also in this section) is the friendly GUI client for those profiles. For a turnkey server with a web admin UI and per-user provisioning, use OpenVPN Access Server (see the alternative repos below). Pairs with the Locations feature; an "On VPN" location keeps monitoring sane while tunneled.

Run OpenVPN with FrontierStack

Install or connect OpenVPN; then check its status, ports and certificate from FrontierStack. The same screen links to firewall checks, Malware Audit and backups where they apply.

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