This repository is a modified version of amussey/FreeNAS-SABnzbd-OpenVPN to use SABnzbd instead of SABnzbd. Many files are the same, including most of this README, so all credit to amussey for the awesome work!

This guide and the associated scripts will help you secure your SABnzbd client so it only sends traffic through a VPN. For this particular guide, I'll be showing you how to set up Private Internet Access on a FreeNAS 9.3 jail, but any VPN service should work about the same, and the guide should be generic enough to apply to any FreeBSD jail.

From the FreeNAS web interface, install the Trasmission plugin.

After Trasmission is installed, log into your FreeNAS machine over SSH. Once inside, run jls to list the jails.

[root@MyNas] /# jls
   JID  IP Address      Hostname                      Path
     2  -               crashplan_1                   /mnt/volume/Plugins/Jails/crashplan_1
     9  -               sabnzbd_3 		              /mnt/volume/Plugins/Jails/SABnzbd_3
[root@MyNas] /#

To log into your SABnzbd jail, run jexec (your jail number) tcsh. For example, to get into sabnzbd_3, we'd run:

[root@MyNas] /# jexec 9 tcsh
root@SABnzbd_3:/ #

Now you're inside your jail, running the tcsh shell. cd to the root of the drive, and clone this repo. git doesn't come pre-installed, but svn does, so you can run the following command to checkout the repo using svn:

svn checkout https://github.com/t3rminalVel0city/FreeNAS-SABnzbd-OpenVPN/trunk/FreeNAS-SABnzbd-OpenVPN

If you want to install git, you can run the following command:

pkg_add -r git

With the directory cloned, cd into it and run make to begin the setup.

root@SABnzbd_3:/ # cd /FreeNAS-SABnzbd-OpenVPN
root@SABnzbd_3:/FreeNAS-SABnzbd-OpenVPN # make

The setup script will walk you through a couple additional steps.

When you've finished these steps, you'll need to copy your openvpn.conf and the associated keys into /FreeNAS-SABnzbd-OpenVPN/openvpn. For Private Internet Access, these are available using the following command:

cd openvpn
wget https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip --no-check-certificate
unzip openvpn.zip
mv Sweden.ovpn openvpn.conf  # You can change this to the endpoint of your choice.

With the config file in place, fire up the OpenVPN process with the following line:

/etc/rc.d/SABnzbdvpn start

To stop the OpenVPN process, you can run the opposite command:

/etc/rc.d/SABnzbdvpn stop

That's all there is to it! Enjoy your privacy!