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Setting up HMA on Ubuntu



There are variety of reasons for wanting to setup a proxy connection on your machine.
Getting this done on a Windows OS is simple, with tools like HMA! ( Hide My Ass! )
However, the surprise is it is quite easy to get it done on Ubuntu as well.

This is for Ubuntu 18.10, I haven't really tried on another OS but the steps would remain the same.

 Do note that you will need a valid HMA username and password for this to work.

 There are 3 ways you can connect using HMA, I chose OpenVPN.

 Steps:

  • First you need to setup OpenVPN on your machine if it is not available already

        sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn-gnome
  • Next you need the download the certificate and VPN config files from official HMA website

             Download HMA VPN Configs Here!
  • Save it in a folder on your machine and extract it. I prefer ~/vpn_HMA/

        cd ~/
        mkdir vpn_HMA/
  • Once you have the extracted folder in place, the next step is to connect to proxy using the Network Manager. It is present on Ubuntu Top/Bottom bar. Click on the "network signal" icon to bring it up
  • Click on VPN Off -> VPN Settings. It will looks like this

  • Click on the + to add a VPN now

  • Choose "Import from file ..." and provide the path of the downloaded VPN configs. I chose TCP since I don't want drops. You can see the files have region as their names. Pick the file named of the region you want to select. Make sure you select the .ovpn file only

  • Now the dialog will look like this. You need to enter a valid username and password in the 'User name' and 'Password' fields, and click on 'Add'. You can see it has correctly picked up the certificate and key details.




  • Once you click on 'Add' the dialog closes and we can see the VPN connection added in the Network Dialog as well as the network dropdown dialog





  • Go to http://whatismyip.com or any other service to check your region and IP. You can see mine is currently Mumbai
  • Now, in the Network drop down dialog, click on 'VPN Off' and toggle the 'UK.Scotland.Glas..' connection to 'ON'
  • Once you are successfully connected you can see the network icon change to a lock
  • Also, if you again visit http://whatismyip.com you can see that your I.P and region has changed




  • To turn the proxy connection off, just toggle it OFF from the network dropdown dialog and you will have your normal network back
  • If you don't need that VPN connection anymore you can delete it in the VPN configs or you can let it stay for future use. If you need any other geo you can pick the same from the Config folder.
Source: https://support.hidemyass.com/hc/en-us/articles/202721506-HMA-Pro-VPN-on-Ubuntu-with-Network-Manager
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