EasyRSA :system was unable to find the specified registry key or value

mrjohn

Hi
I've installed (as Admin) latest version of OpenVPN (2.4.7-I603) on Windows 2012 x64. I've checked on installer EasyRSA 2. Then trying to generate the certificate go in path ..\program files\OpenVPN\easy-rsa\ open command prompt(as Admin) run

init-config.bat

got :

1 file copied

then I run

vars.bat

and got:

system was unable to find the specified registry key or value

thanks for any help

TinCanTech

Did you edit vars.bat ?

mrjohn

Hi.
NO edit done.

TinCanTech

mrjohn wrote system was unable to find the specified registry key or value

Which must be caused by this in vars.bat

rem Automatically set PATH to openssl.exe
FOR /F "tokens=2*" %%a IN ('REG QUERY "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenVPN"') DO set "PATH=%PATH%;%%b\bin"

mrjohn

reg key exists:

thanks

TinCanTech

Even though you strategically cut off the actual data portion of the keys, I can see that you have used a
non-standard directory for openvpn .. maybe that is why.

mrjohn

no it doesn't work.
can I use EasyRSA 3 instead,but have no idea how to use it,for v.2 I used steps from there:
https://blog.bobbyallen.me/2016/02/07/setting-up-openvpn-server-on-windows-2012-r2/
I want to create a secure connection for a Firebird SQL database
thanks

mrjohn

solved using EasyRSA 3 and steps from here https://www.sys-dev.cat/blog/3/