Installing OpenVPN on Mac OS X (Tunnelblick)

Of course there is also OpenVPN software for Mac OS X. Its name is Tunnelblick, which is free open-source software, released under the BSD license, and it contains a graphical installation wizard. You can download it from http://www.tunnelblick.net/. Tunnelblick comes as a disk image file including the command-line application (by the OpenVPN project) and the Tunnelblick GUI for Macintosh computers.

If you need more detailed information on installing and uninstalling Tunnelblick, the online readme http://www.tunnelblick.net/README.txt file is the best place to look first. It contains a full list of files that are installed on your system. For version 3.0 these files are:

/System/Library/Extensions/tap.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/tun.kext
/System/Library/StartupItems/tap
/System/Library/StartupItems/tun
/usr/local/sbin/openvpn
/usr/local/sbin/openvpnstop
/usr/local/sbin/openvpnstart
/Applications/Tunnelblick.app

To uninstall Tunnelblick from...