Kubuntu: Connect to OpenVPN Server with Network Manager Applet

Okay, you’ve successfully set up a new OpenVPN server on your VPS. What’s next?

Here, i post a brief tutorial how to connect my Kubuntu desktop to OpenVPN server with the default connection manager. Previously, I have set up OpenVPN server in just one click. And after the server is up, it automagically created several OpenVPN config files for the client. I fetched them with scp.

scp root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/root/{ca.crt,client.ovpn,client1.crt,client1.key} /home/user/Projects/web/VPN

OpenVPN onfig files

Before this, I didn’t have any idea how to connect to VPN with the OVPN file. But actually, it’s so easy to do that with Kubuntu network manager plasma widget.

1. Click on the network manager widget, then click the right corner gear.

Kubuntu plasma network manager

1. In the window appears, click menu File, choose Import VPN. Select the OVPN file we got previously.

Import settings

Select file

new connection added

1. Edit the connection, add the rest of files. Make sure that the connection type is X.509 Certificates

Add the rest of config files

1. Connect it.

OpenVPN connected