How To Install eurephia on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eurephia on Fedora 34.
What is eurephia
This plug-in enhances OpenVPN by adding user name and password authentication in addition. An eurephia user account is a combination of minimum one OpenVPN SSL certificate and a user name with a password assigned. It is also possible to setup several eurephia user names to use a shared OpenVPN certificate. In addition, eurephia will blacklist IP addresses, certificates and user names on too many failed attempts and it supports dynamic update of iptables rules which restricts network access per connection.
We can use yum or dnf to install eurephia on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install eurephia.
Install eurephia on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install eurephia using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install eurephia
Install eurephia on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install eurephia using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install eurephia
How To Uninstall eurephia on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the eurephia package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove eurephia
eurephia Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/91475d95bb2633a950a55dd6f16d4e01f920a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/c9a1fd32de0b50a956e60ace8ffcee88936eef
/usr/lib64/eurephia/efw-iptables.so
/usr/lib64/openvpn/eurephia-auth.so
/usr/share/doc/eurephia
/usr/share/doc/eurephia/CREDITS.txt
/usr/share/doc/eurephia/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man7/eurephia-auth.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/eurephia-variables.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eurephia on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.