Muhammad Asif Anwar Cell No: +92-300-8885072begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +92-300-8885072 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Ph No: +92-608-362928begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +92-608-362928 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Pakistan.
________________________________ From: Tomas Cassidy <tomas.cassidy+launch...@gmail.com> To: asif.an...@ymail.com Sent: Tue, March 30, 2010 4:18:33 AM Subject: [Bug 489819] Re: Serverguide OpenVPN page has incorrect install instructions I think there is either a bug in the docs or in one of the scripts/tools used in the guide. I got up to the section "Enter the following to create the server certificates:". After running the command "./pkitool --initca", it generated the following output with the last line being continuously repeated. I had to hit ^C (CTRL-C) to exit the script and return to the bash prompt (after waiting for ~2 mins for the script to stop scrolling the last line). I repeated the commands "./clean-all", "./build-dh", and "./pkitool --initca" multiple times with the same result (except that the amout of . and + characters printed from the pkitool output changed every time). $ ./pkitool --initca Using CA Common Name: TEST_ORG CA Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key ..........................++++++ ....++++++ writing new private key to 'ca.key' ----- string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long string is too long, it needs to be less than 2 bytes long ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- Serverguide OpenVPN page has incorrect install instructions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/489819 You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to ubuntu- docs in ubuntu. Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: ubuntu-docs $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 Codename: karmic $ apt-cache policy openvpn openvpn: Installed: 2.1~rc19-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 2.1~rc19-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 2.1~rc19-1ubuntu2 0 500 http://mirror.optus.net karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I tried to install and configure OpenVPN using the instructions provided at https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/openvpn.html but they appear to be incorrect. eg. "sudo cp -r /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/2.0/ /etc/openvpn/" and "Next, edit /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars adjusting the following to your environment: ". The vars file appears to be copied to /etc/openvpn/2.0/vars using the provided instructions, but the user is told to edit it at /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars. "cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/easy-rsa" gives "-bash: cd: /etc/openvpn/easy- rsa/easy-rsa: No such file or directory" "./clean-all" gives "mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys': Permission denied" This command (and possibly others) appears to require sudo/root privs, but is not marked as such. Only the final command in the list with that command uses sudo. There are possibly other errors on this page as I haven't checked any further apart from the listed examples above. I don't know enough about openvpn to say what the correct commands should be, but they are definitely incorrect in some places. -- Serverguide OpenVPN page has incorrect install instructions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/489819 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
