I am trying to use openvpn since im using tryhackme to learn cybersecurity but Up till now I have been using the in browser machine but when I tried to use my own linux system I cant connect to openvpn I found out after research that vpns are blocked in mmmy country so I should redirect the traffic and use tor as a proxy to be able to connect to openvpn but it isn't working what i did so far:
1-install tor
sudo apt install tor
2- Add this line to the "/etc/tor/torrc" file to tunnel vpn traffic:
SocksPort 9150 PreferSOCKSNoAuth
3-Then you will need to tell OpenVPN to use a proxy. Add this to your VPN config file:
socks-proxy localhost 9150
socks-proxy-retry
4- Restart tor: sudo service tor restart *you may need to reload the config for tor with: "sudo service tor reload"
5- Then I ran the openvpn file
sudo openvpn file.ovpn
Error that keeps poping up:
recv_socks_reply: Socks proxy returned bad reply
question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65934868/not-able-to-connect-to-openvpn-using-tor
