Not to be that guy...but there are no WireGuard servers or clients, only peers. Some setups "look" like clients, some "look" like servers, but it's peers all the way down.
Do you mean it’s fully bidirectional?
E.g. connecting to the WireGuard “server” my work set up allows them full access to my internal network?
I would have assumed I would need to set some sort of reverse routing in that case
Nope, routing traffic between your network and the tunnel would involve routes and possibly NAT.
Wireguard is just a special interface on a peer computer that you can send packets to. What each peer decides to do with the packets is in the realm of routing.
It is the virtual equivalent of connecting 2 devices together via a cable
It's OK I was literally OMW to be that guy.
nmcli con import type wireguard file path_to_wireguard_config_file.conf
All hail the sacred command line.
Even Gnome natively supports Wireguard VPN client by default. There is also wireguard tools on apt. wg-quick up /path/to/conf
As a Linux nerd and Privacy/Open source advocate it's tough to admit. But I can't use DuckDuckGo. I work as a Linux Sysadmin and Google is the only search engine reliably returning good results (especially on more obscure topics). With DuckDuckGo I've often noticed that it will simply "drop" words from you search terms (i.e. if you search "yellow computer chair" it might just show you any kind of yellow chair or something like that) which makes it unusable for precise searches.
That's so weird, I decided to completely drop Google as my primary a while back because by the end, the only search results I got was literally only spam and SEO spam/adware links on anything I ever searched. DDG didn't have any of this. Could search how to do something on a Foss project running on my server and 80% of the results were spam links and the other weren't even relevant to the search. For me Google took a shit, Bing was slow and DDG was just a good in-between.
you may want to try out kagi.
google get worse, because they have a strong incentive to deliver ads, and a weaker incentive to deliver good results (see Cory Doctorow). Kagi is a subscription service, so their only incentive is to deliver good results.
on HN there are regularly good discussions on the topic, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852133
As far as the server goes, setting up wg-easy is pretty painless.
What's nm?
NetworkManager, presumably.
NetworkManager UI for most things to do with network on Linux
Istg ddg has some of the worst SEO hells imaginable. Worse than Googles.
Kagi Quick Answer
To setup a WireGuard VPN client in Linux using NetworkManager (nm), there are a few steps:
Ensure you have the latest version of NetworkManager installed as older versions may not support WireGuard. According to result [1], NetworkManager version 1.26.2 or higher is required.
Obtain the client configuration file from your VPN provider or server administrator. This file will contain the connection details like the server endpoint IP/URL, listen port, public and private keys, and allowed IP ranges.
Import the client configuration file into NetworkManager. This can be done using the nmcli command line tool or the NetworkManager GUI. For example, using nmcli:
nmcli connection import type wireguard file /path/to/client/config.confActivate the WireGuard VPN connection. Using nmcli:
nmcli connection up id wireguard-clientYou should now be connected to the VPN. You can verify the connection status and check that traffic is being routed through the VPN by pinging internal resources. The NetworkManager GUI provides an easy way to import and manage VPN connections without using command line commands. Results [2] and [3] provide a mapping of WireGuard client configuration file settings to the NetworkManager GUI advanced editor.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Language models are most useful when the search engines think they're smarter than you
Late answer: this was the solution for me. Thx.
cp wg0.conf /etc/wireguard && wg-quick up wg0
