How To Install eurephia on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eurephia on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is eurephia
eurephia is:
This plug-in enhances OpenVPN by adding user name and password authentication. 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.
All information is stored in a database and all changes to the accounts will be effective immediately. At the moment eurephia supports the SQLite database.
There are three methods to install eurephia on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install eurephia Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eurephia using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eurephia
Install eurephia Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eurephia using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eurephia
Install eurephia Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install eurephia using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eurephia
How To Uninstall eurephia on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the eurephia package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eurephia
Uninstall eurephia And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eurephia and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eurephia
Remove eurephia Configurations and Data
To remove eurephia configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eurephia
Remove eurephia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eurephia configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eurephia
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eurephia package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.