OpenVPN and OpenLdap

ecanmaster@gmail.com

I want to use openldap for my openvpn connection.
I have donwloaded this file: auth-ldap-2.0.3.tar.gz
and my system is SUSE enterprise
this is the command to install it:
./configure --with-openvpn=/root/openvpn-2.2.2/

but where can I find the source files of openvpn, because I installed it with the zypper command and cant find them?

maikcat

which version of SLES are you using?

are you using SMT for mirror or you download directly packages from novell?

if you use zypper se openvpn are you using source based packages?

Michael.

ecanmaster@gmail.com

Hello Michael,

I am using Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 x86_64 (64-bit)

I just checked for the open vpn (just to be sure):

command: openvpn --version
OpenVPN 2.0.9 x86_64-suse-linux [SSL] [LZO] [EPOLL] built on Oct 31 2013
Developed by James Yonan
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 OpenVPN Solutions LLC <info@openvpn.net>

I have also downloaded openvpn 2.2.2 from the OPENVPN and extracted on my /tmp folder

when running the command
./configure --with-openvpn=/tmp/openvpn-2.2.2/

I get this error:
configure: error: Can't locate Objective C runtime headers

maikcat

how come and you didnt upgrade to sp3? 🙂

openvpn found in repo are quite old.. 🙁

Information for package openvpn:

Repository: SLES11-SP3-Updates
Name: openvpn
Version: 2.0.9-143.40.5
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany

i dont know if you can find a newer version maybe from opensuse repos...
2.0.9 is very old version but you can install the source packages by using

zypper install -t srcpackage openvpn

maybe it is better to compile a newer version by yourself.... :?

Michael.

ecanmaster@gmail.com

Yes, you are right.
It is very old , but for the openvpn openldap plugin there is no newer version.
I got this server and I don't know if its possible to upgrade or just clean install.
Anyway, I have opened a new thread, did manage to install the opvpn ldap plaugin but now open can't read the plugin...

I don't have much experience with compile a newer version,
do you have any good wiki on how to do this?
thx

maikcat

if you download the source tarball you will see that in the readme it has instructions
on how to compile it (it uses configure script so i assume it will be relatively easy process..).

Michael.