Easy VPN Setup

There are many guides on the internet about how to setup various types of VPN.

This quick guide and script will get you running a PPTP type VPN from which you can natively connect to from windows.

You must have Centos 5.7 (32 bit) running on your VPS for this script to work

As root:

#wget www.onepoundwebhosting.co.uk/linux/pptp.sh

#sh pptp.sh

Once the scripts has finished it will display a username and the generated password.

The login details can be changed by editing the chap-secrets files

#nano /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

if you change any of the details you will need to issue a restart to the pptp server

#service pptpd restart

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