How To Install eurephia on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install eurephia on Ubuntu 22.04. eurephia is flexible OpenVPN authentication module

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eurephia on Ubuntu 22.04.

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 22.04. 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 22.04

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 22.04, 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 22.04 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 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.