IT410 W3 Project Linux Docx.

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Table of Contents
Task 1: Installation of Linux, OpenVPN server, OpenVPN client..................................................2
Task 1.1. Installation of Linux.....................................................................................................2
Task 1.2. Installation of OpenVPN Server (Linux)...................................................................10
Task 1.3. Installation of OpenVPN Client (Windows)..............................................................13
Task 2: Editing OpenVPN’s var file and addition of information.................................................16
Task 3: Initialization of variable and generation of certificate authority certificate and key........16
Task 4: Generation of certificate and key for server and client.....................................................17
Task 5: Generation of Diffie-Hellman parameters........................................................................19
Task 6: Creation of configuration files for server and client.........................................................19
Task 7: Starting OpenVPN daemon..............................................................................................20
Task 8: Starting OpenVPN client..................................................................................................21
Task 9: Pinging server to confirm connection established between the machines........................21
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................23

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Task 1: Installation of Linux, OpenVPN server, OpenVPN client
Task 1.1. Installation of Linux
For the installation of linux we have used Ubuntu 18.04.3 version and oracle virtual box.
In the first step a new machine is created and it is named as Ubuntu. The location of the machine
is set and type is set to Linux. The version of Ubuntu is 64 bit and in the next step memory is
allocated to the virtual machine and it is set to 1024 mb i.e. 1gb.

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Configuration is made for the virtual hard disk and the file type of the hard drive is set to
VDI and the storage of the hard drive is set to dynamically allocated such that the size may get
increased or decreased according to the needs of the user.

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The location of the storage of the hard drive is configured and the initial size of the hard
disk is set to 10.00 GB.
The start option is clicked and the iso file downloaded from Ubuntu website is selected as the
start up disk for starting the installation of Ubuntu as a virtual machine.