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Connect To a PPTP VPN from an Ubuntu Server using command line

I ended up in handling tens of linux servers remotely and as a developer running into sysadmin tasks is quite common. That's one of the reasons which make me become a command-line lover. Anyway, in this situation the major issue for me is to make Google understand what am I really looking for, since this kind of problem is usually faced in a Desktop or GUI-based Ubuntu environment. As I said it was really hard to let Google find something useful for my purpose, but after some heavy digging I could figure out how I should proceed The Ubuntu version on which I perform this setup is a 12.04 LTS, so I can not guarantee for other versions. And in addiction to that often the information retrieved belongs to old Ubuntu releases. In any case this is how I proceeded. Note 1 : you would use your favourite text editor (nano, pico, vim) where I may refer to VIM Note 2 : All the following commands are intended to be executed as superuser (using sudo or being root) Note 3 : the followi