samos123/pptp-vpn-server repository overview

⁠PPTP VPN Server Docker Image

This is a docker image with simple VPN (PPTP) server with chap-secrets authentication.

On Docker Hub Registry: samos123/pptp-vpn-server⁠ Source code on GitHub: samos123/docker-pptp-vpn-server⁠

PPTP uses /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file to authenticate VPN users. You need to create this file on your own and link it to docker when starting a container.

Example of chap-secrets file:

# Secrets for authentication using PAP
# client    server      secret      acceptable local IP addresses
username    *           password    *

⁠Starting VPN server

To start VPN server as a docker container run:

docker run -d --privileged -p 1723:1723 --net host -v {local_path_to_chap_secrets}:/etc/ppp/chap-secrets samos123/pptp-vpn-server

Edit your local chap-secrets file, to add or modify VPN users whenever you need. When adding new users to chap-secrets file, you don't need to restart Docker container.

⁠Connecting to VPN service

You can use any VPN (PPTP) client to connect to the service. To authenticate use credentials provided in chap-secrets file.

Note: Before starting container in --net=host mode, please read how networking in host mode works in Docker: https://docs.docker.com/reference/run/#mode-host⁠

⁠Credits and Authors

Original Author of the image is Przemek Szalko⁠

Minor modifications and maintenance of this image by Sam Stoelinga(samos123)