Stupid (?!) openvpn question [SOLVED]

demon-tf · Last edited by demon-tf on Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:39 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi!

I just emerged openvpn while finishing a redo of my gateway machine. I'm using openvpn with a preshared key for over two years now but my setup seems to be broken now.

As far as i can tell openvpn doesn't support preshared keys anymore since the commandline arg --genkey and the config file parameter secret are generating errors like:

Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [CMD-LINE]:1: genkey (2.0.5)

Any ideas?! I would really like to use the preshared keys.

Thanks, Kai
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LoDown · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject:

What is the exact command you are trying to use? I have never used openVPN, but from some quick looking around, it appears it should be

demon-tf · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject: As i said

which gives:

Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [CMD-LINE]:1: genkey (2.0.5)
Use --help for more information.

I read the howto and docs... I think it must either be a issue with the newer version (i was using 1.x before) or some USE flag i donn't know of.
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magic919 · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:00 am Post subject:

I'm running the same version and the command works for me. That could mean your version doesn't have all the same options compiled in, perhaps? Maybe SSL or SSL crypto?

demon-tf · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject:

Yep, that's it! I knew it was some USE-Flag. ssl and crypt did the trick for me!!

Thanks a lot!
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magic919 · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:54 pm Post subject:

Glad that worked out. You can always take a peek in the .ebuild to get some clues; works for me.

mariourk · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:37 am Post subject:

My problem was that OpenVPN didn't recognize the ca option.
Therefore it refused to start. Adding the ssl-flag and recompile
fixed the problem for me.

Thanks a lot for that tip

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