They learned a good lesson from the liblzma situation.
PiVPN is so easy to use. You run 1 command and pass in the name of the config to generate and you're done. Now you can take that config and use it client side.
I've used it on Debian servers (not a Raspberry Pi) and it's been flawless to onboard a bunch of folks into using a VPN (work related).
IMO there's no way this project will fail, someone will fork it.
unfortunate that it's come to an end but it's nice to hear the maintainer moving on in such a positive way :)
Server, two Apple TVs, a couple phones, a tablet, and a laptop all on it in like 15 minutes flat. With one of the Apple TVs configured to act as a gateway, too.
Should’ve just done that to begin with.
You set the number of peers and it generates that number of folders with certificates and QR codes for you.
Might just setup a nixOS arm image with wg instead
I migrated to OPNSense for my DNS and I haven't needed VPN for a little bit. But I kind of disagree that there is no place for a simple CLI tool for wireguard user management.
I was going to make a comment about how unreasonable it is to shut the project down instead of letting someone else take it over. But two things come to mind: First, yes, people can fork it and develop it on their own. Second, right after xz, maybe it would seem unwise to endorse a stranger taking over your security project.
PS: PiVPN isn't wireguard itself. Assuming WG's command line doesn't change radically for a while, PiVPN is still completely usable and people don't need to rush to get off it.
I wonder if financial/monetary incentive would change this. I don't think it would personally (because putting a value on your free time/mental load/time you can spend with your loved ones doing something else away from the PC is precious)
On the flip side... $500/mo? $1k/mo? $5k/mo? I'm sure most projects that go "defunct" open-source-free-no-financial-incentive-thanklessly-help-build-something could probably find "motivated maintainers" for $3k/mo on average? Internationally?
Is the "capitalist" answer "this repo and all of its efforts are not worth $3k/mo to the open market"?
Perhaps Jia Tan is looking for a new gig.
Eventually we ended up building a custom Raspberry Pi image.
Perhaps overkill but have been running this for many years with zero issues. It does everything though so configuration/setup can take a bit of time.
> WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.
That was truly disgusting.
That’s what prompted Raymond to create uBlock Origin.
Just handing responsibility over to someone else for something like a VPN project is definitely high risk.
Remember the xz debacle last week? Same kind of people who backdoored xz would love to get maintainership of a VPN project for sure.
Chapeau bas for keeping it going for so long. The internet of old was built by irrational hobbyists like these guys.
