nordnm 0.0a14

A Python 3 CLI tool for automating the management of NordVPN OpenVPN servers through NetworkManager.

This tool removes the need for manually handling OpenVPN configurations from NordVPN. It will synchronise the best servers from chosen countries into the NetworkManager VPN list. A synchronised VPN can then be chosen to auto-connect to, whenever NetworkManager brings an network connection up.

More documentation will be available when this tool is out of Alpha releases.

Warning: This tool is still highly under development. I take no responsibility for any unforseen problems it may cause.

Features:

• Uses the latest NordVPN OpenVPN configuration files.

• Imports the ‘best’ server of each available type (country, category, protocol), based on latency and server load.

• Provides humanly readable connection names, so you can easily tell what each option offers.

• Provides settings for whitelisting or blacklisting certain countries from being synchronised.

• Automatically adds user credentials to the imported configurations.

• Uses the NordVPN DNS servers to prevent DNS request leaks.

• Disables IPv6 by default, to avoid IPv6 leaks.

• Sets the auto connect server of your choice for all NetworkManager connections, instead of per connection. (optional)

• Sets a network kill-switch, to disable the network interface being used, if the active VPN disconnects. (optional)

1. Requirements

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt update && sudo apt install network-manager openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome

Arch

sudo pacman -S --needed networkmanager openvpn networkmanager-openvpn

2. Installation

Please note: This tool requires Python 3.5 or later. (May change in the future)

If your default Python version is 2.x, you will need to use pip3 below

System Install

sudo -H pip install nordnm

User Install

pip install --user nordnm

3. Usage

Note: Many of the commands below can be chained into one line. A recommended example of this is to update, synchronise and set any auto-connect/kill-switch at the same time.

For example:

sudo nordnm -uska nl normal tcp

usage: nordnm [-h] [-u] [-s] [-a [COUNTRY_CODE] [VPN_CATEGORY] [PROTOCOL]]
              [-k] [-p] [--countries] [--categories] [--credentials]
              [--settings]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u, --update          Download the latest OpenVPN configurations from
                        NordVPN
  -s, --sync            Synchronise the optimal servers (based on load and
                        latency) to NetworkManager
  -a [COUNTRY_CODE] [VPN_CATEGORY] [PROTOCOL], --auto-connect [COUNTRY_CODE] [VPN_CATEGORY] [PROTOCOL]
                        Configure NetworkManager to auto-connect to the chosen
                        server type. Takes country code, category and protocol
  -k, --kill-switch     Sets a network kill-switch, to disable the active
                        network interface when an active VPN connection
                        disconnects
  -p, --purge           Remove all active connections, auto-connect and kill-
                        switch (if configured)
  --countries           Display a list of the available countries
  --categories          Display a list of the available VPN categories
  --credentials         Change the existing saved credentials
  --settings            Change the existing saved settings

Suggestions/Bugs

If you have any feature suggestions or find an interesting bug, please let me know. More intuitive options and fixes will be coming in the future.