BITMASK-ROOT(1)

📦 version 0.24.10, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 NAME 💖

bitmask-root — the easy, fast, and secure VPN service from riseup.net ✨ (yes bestie, that riseup)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first thing you need to know: this is bitmask-root version 16 🎀

What does it do? It manipulates the Bitmask firewall. That's the whole job. That's the assignment. 💅

⚠️ and this is the important part, so listen up fr fr: this program is *not* intended to be used manually. like, at all. it's not for you to just vibe-check by hand in your terminal, it gets called by other stuff. please don't. 🙈

✨ Commands ✨

here's the full menu of things it can do, no cap 🫶

  • bitmask-root version — tells you the version, iconic behaviour honestly
  • bitmask-root restart — restarts the whole thing 🔄
  • bitmask-root openvpn start <args> — kicks off openvpn, with whatever <args> you hand it
  • bitmask-root openvpn stop — shuts openvpn down
  • bitmask-root firewall start <args> — brings the firewall up, taking <args>
  • bitmask-root firewall stop — takes the firewall down
  • bitmask-root firewall isup — checks whether the firewall is up 👑

and that's the whole page bestie, slay 💖 this was bitmask-root 0.21.11, dated June 2022, part of the User Commands manual — mwah, go forth and not run it manually 🧚⭐

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