Problem with OpenVPN-AS on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3

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kansasdba
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Problem with OpenVPN-AS on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3

Post by kansasdba » Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:03 pm

I've installed the RHEL5 (x86-64) RPM on my Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3 box and I'm having a problem connecting. I'm able to connect to the web page externally, but when I have the VPN connect, I get the error message:

API Error: AUTHRPC_ERRBACK: user lacks permission to access host `<name of my VPN server>`.

I'm getting this with both "local" and "PAM" authentication configured.

I realize that:
a) Oracle Enterprise Linux isn't exactly the same as RedHat (although they're very close)
b) RHEL5 and RHEL6 are also not the same (there is no RHEL6 version of OpenVPN-AS at this point).

So, I'm wondering, am I facing a configuration issue with OpenVPN-AS? Or is this an incompatibility (and I'll just have to wait for a RHEL 6 version)?

Also, I'm not seeing anything in /var/log/openvpnas.log that looks particularly useful either.

Thanks!

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Re: Problem with OpenVPN-AS on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3

Post by novaflash » Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:35 am

As you probably have guessed, we didn't release an Access Server version for this OS. I'm thinking it will probably work but there are permissions problems to sort out. I am not sure where this error is being thrown exactly but I am going to take a wild guess. I am guessing that the Access Server is not able to talk to the management interfaces of the OpenVPN daemons, or something like that. You may want to check any firewall/SELinux solutions and trying to disable them to see if that makes the thing start working.

Good luck.
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Re: Problem with OpenVPN-AS on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3

Post by kansasdba » Sun Dec 23, 2012 1:37 am

Any idea when a RHEL6 (x86-64) version will be available?

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