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Forks ⑂ 662
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Top contributors Show top contributors pritunl: enterprise vpn server
Pritunl is a distributed enterprise
vpn server built using the OpenVPN protocol. Documentation and more
information can be found at the home page pritunl.com
Install From Source
# Install MongoDB if running single host configuration
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org.repo << EOF
[mongodb-org]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/9/mongodb-org/8.2/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/server-8.0.asc
EOF
sudo dnf -y install mongodb-org
sudo systemctl start mongod
sudo systemctl enable mongod
# Install OpenVPN
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/pritunl.repo << EOF
[pritunl]
name=Pritunl Repository
baseurl=https://repo.pritunl.com/stable/yum/oraclelinux/9/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pritunl/pgp/master/pritunl_repo_pub.asc
EOF
sudo dnf --allowerasing -y install pritunl-openvpn
# [Optional] Install ndppd for IPv6 NDP proxying
sudo dnf -y install pritunl-ndppd
# Set current pritunl version X.XX.XXXX.XX
export VERSION="X.XX.XXXX.XX"
sudo dnf -y install gcc git-core wget rsync openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel sqlite-devel xz-devel zlib-devel selinux-policy selinux-policy-devel policycoreutils-python-utils python3 net-tools openssl iptables ipset ca-certificates psmisc
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.13/Python-3.12.13.tgz
echo "a7438eabd3a48139f42d4e058096af8d880b0bb6e8fb8c78838892e4ce5583f2 Python-3.12.13.tgz" | sha256sum -c - && tar xf Python-3.12.13.tgz
rm Python-3.12.13.tgz
cd "./Python-3.12.13"
gcc_major=$(gcc -dumpversion | cut -d. -f1)
base_cflags="-fstack-protector-strong -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -Werror=format-security -mtune=generic -grecord-gcc-switches"
if [ "$gcc_major" -ge 7 ]; then
gcc7_flags="-fno-semantic-interposition"
cflags="$base_cflags $gcc7_flags"
ldflags="-fno-semantic-interposition"
else
cflags="$base_cflags"
ldflags=""
fi
if [ "$gcc_major" -ge 8 ]; then
gcc8_flags="-fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection"
cflags="$cflags $gcc8_flags"
fi
if [ "$gcc_major" -ge 11 ]; then
arch_flags="-march=x86-64-v2"
cflags="$cflags $arch_flags"
fi
export CFLAGS_NODIST="$cflags"
export LDFLAGS_NODIST="$ldflags"
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/pritunl
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/pritunl
./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/pritunl/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/pritunl/usr/lib --enable-optimizations --enable-ipv6 --enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions --disable-shared --with-lto --with-computed-gotos=yes --with-platlibdir=lib
sudo make ENSUREPIP=no install
sudo /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/python3 -m ensurepip
cd ../
sudo rm -rf ./Python-3.12.13
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
echo "031f088e5d955bab8657ede27ad4e3bc5b7c1ba281f05f245bcc304f327c987a go1.26.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c - && sudo tar -C /usr/local -xf go1.26.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
rm -f go1.26.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tee -a ~/.bashrc << 'EOF'
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH
EOF
source ~/.bashrc
sudo systemctl stop pritunl || true
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/pritunl
go install -v github.com/pritunl/pritunl-web@latest
go install -v github.com/pritunl/pritunl-dns@latest
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/pritunl-dns
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/pritunl-web
sudo cp -f ~/go/bin/pritunl-dns /usr/bin/pritunl-dns
sudo cp -f ~/go/bin/pritunl-web /usr/bin/pritunl-web
wget https://github.com/pritunl/pritunl/archive/refs/tags/$VERSION.tar.gz
tar xf $VERSION.tar.gz
rm $VERSION.tar.gz
cd ./pritunl-$VERSION
sudo /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/pip3 install --require-hashes -r requirements-build.txt
sudo /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/pip3 install --require-hashes -r requirements.txt
/usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/python3 setup.py build
sudo /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/python3 setup.py install
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/pritunl /usr/bin/pritunl
sudo groupadd -r pritunl-web || true
sudo useradd -r -g pritunl-web -s /sbin/nologin -c 'Pritunl web server' pritunl-web || true
# [Optional] SELinux profile
cd selinux9
ln -s /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
make
sudo make load
sudo cp pritunl.pp /usr/share/selinux/packages/pritunl.pp
sudo cp pritunl_dns.pp /usr/share/selinux/packages/pritunl_dns.pp
sudo cp pritunl_web.pp /usr/share/selinux/packages/pritunl_web.pp
sudo semodule -i /usr/share/selinux/packages/pritunl.pp /usr/share/selinux/packages/pritunl_dns.pp /usr/share/selinux/packages/pritunl_web.pp
sudo restorecon -v -R /tmp/pritunl* || true
sudo restorecon -v -R /run/pritunl* || true
sudo restorecon -v /etc/systemd/system/pritunl.service || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/systemd/system/pritunl.service || true
sudo restorecon -v /etc/systemd/system/pritunl-web.service || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/systemd/system/pritunl-web.service || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/bin/pritunl || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/bin/python || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/bin/python3 || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/bin/python3.6 || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/bin/python3.9 || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/pritunl || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/python || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/python3 || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/python3.6 || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/lib/pritunl/usr/bin/python3.9 || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/bin/pritunl-web || true
sudo restorecon -v /usr/bin/pritunl-dns || true
sudo restorecon -v -R /var/lib/pritunl || true
sudo restorecon -v /var/log/pritunl* || true
cd ../../
sudo rm -rf ./pritunl-$VERSION
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start pritunl
sudo systemctl enable pritunl
License
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