How to setup headless (No GUI/CLI Only) ubuntu openvpn pia

openvpn_pia

## Install OpenVPN

# Now we install and configure OpenVPN, do the following commands:

sudo apt-get install openvpn

cd /etc/openvpn

sudo wget https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip

sudo unzip openvpn.zip

# This next part, you can use whatever vpn connection you like, I use the netherlands for example, continue with the following commands:

sudo cp Netherlands.ovpn pia-nl.conf

sudo vi pia-nl.conf

# Change:
# auth-user-pass
# To:
# auth-user-pass login.conf

sudo vi login.conf
# Then in vi, press i for insert and paste the following:
# yourPIAusername
# yourPIApassword
# Then press the Escape key and type ":wq" without the quotes and hit enter.

sudo chmod 400 login.conf

sudo vi /etc/default/openvpn

# Add an AUTOSTART entry for pia-nl, .conf is not needed, do NOT put a # in front example:
# AUTOSTART="pia-nl"

sudo reboot -r now

# After the restart is done, you should be automatically connected to the VPN, check with the following command:

wget -q -O - ipecho.net/plain

# the output from that command should be an IP address, but it should NOT be YOUR PUBLIC IP ADDRESS, it should, 
# in this example, be one of the netherlands IPs from PIA. As long as an IP shows up and it's not your own IP, 
# you can assume everything is ok and continue.