TryHackMe: OpenVpn: WriteUp-

Aman Chauhan
3 min readMar 13, 2022
fig-1.0: OpenVpn

Hi,

This blog in about openVPN room on TryHackMe.Com. This room is free for everyone so everyone can join it.We will setup it in our Linux Machine.

Description: A guide to connecting to our network to tryhackme server using OpenVPN. In our Kali Machine.

Let’s get started,

First of all download the configuration file from access page below More menu as shown in figure 2.0 below:

fig-2.0: Access page

Usually it comes pre-installed in Kali if you use another linux distro you can simply install by typing following command:

sudo apt-get install openvpn

Once you have installed openvpn on your machine then go the the directory of that configuration file and there type following command as shown in figure 3.0below:

openvpn filename.ovpn

fig-3.0: Openvpn file

It will connect and when terminal show you regarding sequence completed as shown in figure 4.0 message that’s mean your vpn is connected with the network of TryHackMe.

fig-4.0: Terminal

Now you are able to access their machines. To confirm that just enter command in your terminal:

ipconfig

You will see a tun0 adapter working on your machine.Shown in figure 5.0.

fig-5.0: Tun0

Now we check is we able to connect with TryHackMe? Start the tryhackme’s machine.Shown in figure 6.0.

fig-6.0: Tryhackme’s machine

Now we get the IP_Address it can see in figure 7.0. We will open it in our browser.

Note: When you next time start the machine for yourself you might get different IP_Address, that’s fine.

fig-7.0: IP_Address

Now open the IP_address in you web browser.figure 8.0.

fig-8.0: browser

Now we are connected with tryhackme’s network and we got flag. Shown in figure 9.0.

fig-8.0: flag

Wow! We have completed OpenVPN Challenge. Thanks for reading this Article.

See you in another Article.

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