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Before You Begin

  1. Familiarize yourself with our Getting Started guide and complete the steps for setting your Linode's hostname and timezone.

  2. This guide will use sudo wherever possible. Complete the sections of our Securing Your Server to create a standard user account, harden SSH access and remove unnecessary network services. Do not follow the Configure a Firewall section yet--this guide includes firewall rules specifically for an OpenVPN server.

  3. Update your system:

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

{{< note >}} This guide is written for a non-root user. Commands that require elevated privileges are prefixed with sudo. If you’re not familiar with the sudo command, see the Users and Groups guide. {{< /note >}}

{{< note >}} The steps in this guide require root privileges. Be sure to run the steps below as root or with the sudo prefix. For more information on privileges, see our Users and Groups guide. {{< /note >}}

{{< caution >}} Highlight warnings that could adversely affect a user's system with the Caution style. {{< /caution >}}

{{< file "/etc/hosts" aconf >}} 192.0.2.0/24 # Sample IP addresses 198.51.100.0/24 203.0.113.0/24 {{< /file >}}