nordnm 0.0a5

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 and is not yet robust enough to use reliably. 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)

1. Requirements

Debian/Ubuntu

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

Arch

sudo pacman -S networkmanager openvpn networkmanager-openvpn

2. Installation

sudo -H pip3 install nordnm

3. Usage Examples

Get the latest configs, synchronise and then select a “normal” Netherlands server using tcp as auto-connect server:

sudo nordnm --update --sync --auto-connect nl normal tcp

View descriptions of other options:

sudo nordnm --help