User:Rafspiny/NordVPN

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This wiki article has unofficial overlays and might have errors

Disclaimer

This tutorial can have errors and contains packages that are not from the main Gentoo packages hence the title is User:Jeff132312342q4323/NordVPN and not NordVPN with that continue onwards with your own caution.

Also just cause it has a username does not mean you cannot edit it (please do fix the mistakes and add information for eselect-repository and etc.) but just that it is not an official package yet.

With that lets go

What is a VPN

A VPN is a virtual private network that enables you to have a secure connection between your device and the internet you are connected to. This is through a VPN / all your data is routed through an encrypted tunnel. This hides your true IP address when accessing the internet. Most VPNs are used by people for a plethora of reasons including but not limited to using restricted services in their country, privacy and etc.

NordVPN

NordVPN is a proprietary VPN provider. NordVPN operates in Panama as the country has no mandatory data retention laws. Furthermore, It does not participate in Fourteen Eyes or Five Eyes alliances. Checkout out the Wikipedia page for more detailed information. On Linux, it is a terminal / command-line-based tool.

Account

NordVPN requires a paid account to access and use its VPN service. To make an account go to the NordVPN's Website.

Installation

To install NordVPN as it is not in the official Gentoo repository you must use/add the nordvpn overlay but if you would like an older version check out all the overlays on the Gentoo Portage Overlays website.

Adding the overlay

Layman (deprecated)

Layman has been deprecated. If you are still using it, please follow the guide here

eselect

Use `eselect` to enable the nordvpn repository.

root #eselect repository enable nordvpn

To install you need to accept the license and unmask it.

root #echo ">=net-vpn/nordvpn-3.16.6::nordvpn NordVPN" >> /etc/portage/package.license/nordvpn

You may have to unmask the package too.

root #echo ">=net-vpn/nordvpn-3.16.6::nordvpn ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/nordvpn

Make sure to synchronize the overlay repository:

root #emerge --sync

Manual

Go to /var/db/repos

user $ git clone https://gitlab.com/lahouari.dc/nordvpn.git

then go to /etc/portage/repos.conf

then make and edit nordvpn.conf

and add the following lines

FILE /etc/portage/repos.conf/nordvpn.confFileBox example

[nordvpn] 
location = /var/db/repos/nordvpn

Install NordVPN

You can install the NordVPN package by using the following command:

root #emerge -a net-vpn/nordvpn

and then type yes to install it. You may want to review the use flags of dependencies like net-misc/networkmanager and net-vpn/networkmanager-openvpn to limit the number of packages installed.

Masked Issue

If you have an issue that says it is masked you can do

root #emerge -a net-vpn/nordvpn --autounmask

then type yes and then do

root #dispatch-conf

and then type "u" when asked after which you type the previous command

root #emerge -a net-vpn/nordvpn --autounmask

and press yes to install NordVPN

Groups

You have to add the user to the nordvpn group which you can do by using this command (replace "username" to your username). Also add your user to the plugdev group so that it can modify network connections;

root #usermod -a -G nordvpn "username"

root #usermod -a -G plugdev "username"

Do not forget to login again or reboot to make the group changes effective.

Starting and Enabling

OpenRC

You have to start the nordvpn service and enable it with the following commands

root #rc-service nordvpn start

root #rc-update add nordvpn default

SystemD

You have to start the nordvpn service and enable it with the following commands

root #systemctl start nordvpnd.service

root #systemctl enable nordvpnd.service

Configuration

Login

type in

user $nordvpn login

This will show you a link to follow

Continue in the browser: https://api.nordvpn.com/v1/users/oauth/login-redirect?attempt=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You log in on your browser and copy and paste the link you get in the following command.

Successful NordVpn login screen

user $nordvpn login --callback "nordvpn://login?action=login&exchange_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

Welcome to NordVPN! You can now connect to VPN by using 'nordvpn connect'.

Connect

to connect to a random server type in

user $nordvpn connect

To connect to a server in Germany to connect to a random server type in

user $nordvpn connect Germany

NordLynx

To use the NordLynx type in

user $nordvpn set technology nordlynx

Double Vpn

To use Double Vpn type in

user $nordvpn connect Double_VPN

Obfuscate

To use obfuscate type in

user $nordvpn set obfuscate on

OpenVPN

To use openvpn type this for openvpn

user $nordvpn set openvpn on

TCP

Type in this for TCP (only for OpenVPN users)

user $nordvpn set protocol tcp

UDP

type in this for UDP (only for OpenVPN users)

user $nordvpn set protocol udp

External Resources

Known Issues

Currently, after some testing, OpenVPN protocol does not work yet. But good news NordLynx does so considering using it for the time being.