rickatnight11
January 7th, 2010, 03:49 AM
I am trying to set up an OpenVPN server on a machine running Ubuntu 9.10 Server 32-bit by following these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/openvpn.html
The installation of the openvpn package went smoothly, but I'm seeing some inconsistencies in the above guide's certificates section. It says to copy the /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/ to /etc/openvpn/, which I have done, but then it says to edit /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars. If one followed the guide, that file wouldn't exist. I assumed it meant to edit the variables in /etc/openvpn/2.0/vars, which I did, but moving onto the next step of running source vars gives me problems:
Running source vars gives me: NOTE: If you run ./clean-all, I will be doing a rm -rf on /etc/openvpn/2.0/keys
Continuing on with the guide and running ./clean-all gives me: mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/openvpn/2.0/keys': Permission denied
At this point I know something's wrong. Am I doing something incorrectly, or is it possible that running the 32-bit version of Ubuntu Server is causing this?
Thanks!
The installation of the openvpn package went smoothly, but I'm seeing some inconsistencies in the above guide's certificates section. It says to copy the /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/ to /etc/openvpn/, which I have done, but then it says to edit /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars. If one followed the guide, that file wouldn't exist. I assumed it meant to edit the variables in /etc/openvpn/2.0/vars, which I did, but moving onto the next step of running source vars gives me problems:
Running source vars gives me: NOTE: If you run ./clean-all, I will be doing a rm -rf on /etc/openvpn/2.0/keys
Continuing on with the guide and running ./clean-all gives me: mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/openvpn/2.0/keys': Permission denied
At this point I know something's wrong. Am I doing something incorrectly, or is it possible that running the 32-bit version of Ubuntu Server is causing this?
Thanks!