This tutorial shows how to configure a Private Internet Access VPN in Fedora.

OpenVPN

First, make sure you have openvpn in your system. If not:

$ sudo yum install openvpn

Credentials

PIA has 2 types of credentials: a common SSL certificate, a credential that provides their authentication, and your username and password, for yours.

1. Copy your ca.crt into /etc/openvpn.

2. Copy your credentials to a file:

$ echo “YOUR PIA USERNAME” > ~/.pia
$ echo “YOUR PIA PASSWORD” >> ~/.pia
$ sudo chown root:root ~/.pia 
$ sudo chmod 400 ~/.pia
$ sudo mv ~/.pia /root/

Server Config File

Now configure your server.conf file at $subl /etc/openvpn/server.conf with some of their servers' configuration. For example:

client
dev tun
proto udp
remote swiss.privateinternetaccess.com 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca /etc/openvpn/ca.crt
tls-client
remote-cert-tls server
auth-user-pass /root/.pia
comp-lzo
verb 1
reneg-sec 0
auth-nocache

Connecting:

$ sudo openvpn --config '/etc/openvpn/server.conf'