Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "You can specify a message digest as parameter to the --auth option."

A block of code is set as follows:

proto udp
port 1194
dev tun
server 10.200.0.0 255.255.255.0

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

proto udp
port 1194
dev tun
server 10.200.0.0 255.255.255.0

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

#  mkdir -p /etc/openvpn/movpn

Note that first character (the prompt) is used to indicate a root-shell (#) or a user shell ($).

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Launch the OpenVPN GUI application, select the configuration basic-udp-client and click on Connect."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.