[deleted] hi i am having a permisson problem with a new install on ubuntu 11.04 i have google the error and also tryed a new install but with no luck when i run this command ~$ sudo openvpn /etc/openvpn/server.conf i get this error Sun Sep 18 15:07:18 2011 OpenVPN 2.1.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [PF_INET6] [eurephia] built on Mar 11 2011 Sun Sep 18 15:07:18 2011 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables Sun Sep 18 15:07:18 2011 Cannot open easy-rsa/keys/dh1024.pem for DH parameters: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file Sun Sep 18 15:07:18 2011 Exiting i can view the files in the file manager they do exist and i have pleyed around with the permissions on the files but with no luck i am now back to a new install with the same error thanks for any help steve
janjust the 'script-security' warning is misleading - the true cause of the problem is the fact that openvpn cannot read the dh1024.pem file; did you run ./build-dh? Is the file accessible to the user which is configured to run openvpn?
[deleted] hi "did you run ./build-dh" yes i did "Is the file accessible to the user which is configured to run openvpn" the file is accessible as the root which is how i installed openvpn by running "sudo su" before the install the server config : user nobody : group nobody however i hav'nt configured a user to run openvpn thanks for any help
janjust check the entire path to the dh1024.pem file to see if it can be read by user nobody, group nobody . a quick&dirty debugging trick is to disable 'user nobody' and see if it then runs - if so, then your path/file permissions are wrong. If it won't run with 'user nobody' disabled then you've not specified the right path.
