[PORT] OpenVPN

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OpenVPN builds perfectly fine for webOS and works well. (tun/tap driver is available on pretty much all devices)
This obviously needs a frontend and some maintenance background service.

OpenVPN build configuration:

. /opt/webos-sdk-x86_64/1.0.g/environment-setup-armv7a-neon-webos-linux-gnueabi 
wget https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/openvpn-2.5.4.tar.gz && tar xvf openvpn-2.5.4.tar.gz && cd openvpn-2.5.4
./configure --host arm-webos-linux-gnueabi --disable-lzo --disable-plugin-auth-pam
make

Boringtun - userspace wireguard implementation that supports tun/tap could also work well in here, if anyone wanted to make it an actual universal frontend.

connmand has some support for VPNs, but I have no idea if it would be possible to leverage their VPN handling code to connect our openvpn outside TVs rootfs.

If anyone is willing to take it up, I would be glad to help out.

[Anatharias]

I would like to follow up on this, where can I find more documentation ? If I'm reading your explanation correctly, OpenVPN could be started manually on the TV by ssh-ing into it and editing the proper configuration files?

[mariotaku]

I think so, although there is no UI for configuration, you can SSH into it and run.

[nickgirga]

How would one SSH into webos sdkVersion 5.5.0? Everytime I try (using port 9922) it says:
Unable to negotiate with 192.168.50.122 port 9922: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa. I even tried specifying the RSA private key that lives at ~/.ssh/Nick\'s_TV_webos for me, using ssh [email protected] -p 9922 -i ~/.ssh/Nick\'s_TV_webos, but it still says it can't find a matching key. Port 22 just fails to connect entirely.