[PSA] PPTP VPN Support in Sierra is totally gone

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It deletes all of your PPTP configurations, and acts like it never existed.

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Good. It’s not secure.

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Jeeze glad I didn’t install. Do you think this was intentional?

Edit. Yup. definitely intentional.

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Just had to switch my small VPN server away from it. We are still up and running luckily!

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Thanks for posting this. i use Astrill and had been using PPTP on my IOS device. I’ve not been in contact with Astrill and installed a more secure protocol.

Thanks again!!!

BTW, your post really helped for my IOS device. In OSX (currently), I am using OpenVPN (which I believe is SSL)

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iOS 10 deleted all my VPNs including L2TP for some reason. I had to go and add them back in.

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I’m all for retiring PPTP but are they replacing it with OpenVPN or something comparable?

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Until and unless they take such steps it would just continue to be used.

I find it surprising it was still so widely supported.

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You shouldn’t be using PPTP for pretty much anything.

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There’s many other alternatives, I’m glad that Apple removed this so people like you won’t find any reason to use an outdated protocol.

Security risks are real.

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i agree, it’s a real pain in the arse for those of us who are well aware of pptp’s shortcomings and use it anyway for various reasons. i don’t give a shit about RSA 512 bit AES super encryption security personally, i just wanted an easy way to make my ip appear to be in the usa.

if you run linux on your dedicated server, i can help you set up openvpn. i have mine set up as a router, so all my computers and servers have their own private 10.8.0.0/24, so basically what you were doing with your PPTP vpn :slight_smile: i have it set up with keys, no passwords, and a script to generate the client keys/profiles. and a systemd service. pm me anytime, i remember how much of a pain in the arse it was setting it up for the first time.

and i use tunnelblick on my OS X compy as a client. works fairly well, sometimes have to manually delete routes though.

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Same thing happened to me but on OS X upgrade.

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Viscosity:

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Tunnelblick for OpenVPN

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Tunnelblick for OpenVPN. Don’t use Viscosity, proprietary closed-source software is not something you want to tunnel all of your IP traffic through…

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Shimo supports PPTP as well as L2TP, CiscoVPN, OpenVPN and all standard-compliant IPSec connections. It’s worth a try, at least within the 30 days trial.

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Tunnelblick

I’m having at bit of a issue setting up the config though