I am working with Ubuntu 16.04. Seems Bug #489819 reported by Tomas Cassidy on 2009-11-29 is still an issue?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-docs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/489819 Title: Serverguide OpenVPN page has incorrect install instructions Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu: Fix Released 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/489819/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages Post to : documentation-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp