Since I’ve been on the road this week, I set up OpenVPN on my Ubuntu laptop to ease the process of connecting to home. Boy, why didn’t I do this sooner? It’s so nice to easily access all of my home machines without adding more SSH tunnels. The OpenVPN-protected connections are quicker to connect than the SSH tunnels, too.
Geeky stuff like this makes me feel like a Linux stud. Yeah, boyeeee!
Care to share how you set things up? That sounds like it would be a good thing to do….
There’s an excellent howto on the OpenVPN website. I just followed its steps and things basically worked. The only real change I had to make was to adjust the appropriate iptables changes on my firewall.