Librem One: Generic doc issues

There are some issues on this page of the doc https://docs.puri.sm/Librem_One/Generic.html

(And I don’t know where I can make a change to the doc)

For the librem chat:

Homeserver URL: https:// talk.librem.one

This is wrong

The homeserver URL is: https:// chat.librem.one
The identity URL is: https :// vector.im

For the librem tunnel:

Example of openvpn configuration file:

client
dev tun
proto udp
remote us-california.privateinternetaccess.com 1197
resolv-retry infinite
tls-ciphersuites TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
route 51.75.200.9 255.255.255.255 net_gateway
route 192.241.214.14 255.255.255.255 net_gateway
route 5.135.56.33 255.255.255.255 net_gateway
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
cipher aes-256-cbc
auth sha256
tls-client
remote-cert-tls server
auth-nocache
auth-user-pass pass
compress
verb 1
reneg-sec 0
<crl-verify>
-----BEGIN X509 CRL-----
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-----END X509 CRL-----
</crl-verify>

<ca>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</ca>

disable-occ

in this example, the username/password are stored in a “pass” file

auth-user-pass pass

The username and password for the librem VPN are differents than for the others services. You can create the correct “pass” file with this script:

$ cat ./write_vpn_credential.sh 
#!/bin/bash
read -p "librem one username: " user
read -s -p "librem one password: " password
echo ""
data=$(curl -X GET "https://librem.one/api/v1/user/tunnel_account" -H "Authorization: Basic "$(echo -n "$user:$password" | base64 -w 0) 2> /dev/null)
echo "$data" | grep "Invalid username/password." >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo "Invalid username/password." && exit 1
echo "$data" | cut -d '"' -f 4 > pass
echo "$data" | cut -d '"' -f 8 >> pass

Also worth mentioning, “privateinternetaccess” (the company behind the VPN service used for Librem Tunnel) is blocking the SMTP port, so if you want to send an email while using the Librem Tunnel, you must exclude the IP of the SMTP server from the openvpn config like I did in this example:

route 192.241.214.14 255.255.255.255 net_gateway

route 5.135.56.33 255.255.255.255 net_gateway

I don’t know if there is a way to make privateinternetaccess allow SMTP port

( And for the usecase, I am using those service on my qubes os laptop & desktop )

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Thanks for the response. This seems like a rather challenging way to configure VPN, but that’s OK. I am just trying to see how this whole tunnel thing goes.

When you say "PIA blocks smtp " do you mean 465 and 587 as well as 25?
Is this assuming people use webmail and don’t send email from a client? Is that what the world has come to? :slight_smile:

and oh yeah. where are these config files stored?

I believe “yes”.

No, it is assuming that spammers don’t use webmail.

I believe you are able to whitelist your SMTP server’s IP address at the VPN provider (rather than routing it so as to avoid the VPN).

@Russ
Source: they can allow smtp to some destinaiton but not office365/exchange. You need to ask helpdesk if you want an authorization for your specific smtp door.