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Re: [Openvpn-users] Problem with OpenVPN-1.5.0 on RH9


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Problem with OpenVPN-1.5.0 on RH9
  • From: "James Yonan" <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:35:19 -0000

"Dima M. Kullab" <deema@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

>   
> Hi,  
> I'm trying to build an rpm from openvpn-1.5.0 on a RedHat 9, but there is  
> always a failure even though all pre-requirements are isntalled. The output is  
> as follows:  
>   
> *********  
> error: Name field must be present in package: (main package)  
> error: Version field must be present in package: (main package)  
> error: Release field must be present in package: (main package)  
> error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package)  
> error: Group field must be present in package: (main package)  
> error: License field must be present in package: (main package)  
> *********  
>  I'm not sure what the problem could be, so I tried installing from source  
> code (tarball), and there were no problems at all!! I even tested it on the  
> loopback interface as suggested in the INSTALL file with no problems!!  

I don't have any trouble (on RH7 or RH8) doing a

rpmbuild -tb openvpn-1.5.0.tar.gz

The only problem I can recall with building RPM on RH9 is that it didn't
handle OpenSSL header files correctly without a workaround in the configure
script.  That workaround is present in 1.5.0.  RH7 and RH8 don't need the
workaround.

> The problems started to appear in the configuration later. The master  
> certificate authority certificate/private-key pair was successfully created,  
> but when I attempted to create certificate/private-key pairs for both peers,  
> following the HOW-TO instructions. What I did was the following:  
>   
> openssl req -nodes -new -keyout office.key -out office.csr  
> openssl ca -out office.crt -in office.csr  
>   
> The first command executed perfectly and the .key and .csr file were created.  
> The second one, on the other hand, produced the following reponse:  
>   
> ********  
> Using configuration from /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf  
> wrong number of fields on line 1 (looking for field 6, got 1, '' left)  
> ********  
>   
> and the final result is that certificate (.crt) file could not be created!! I  
> would really appreciate if someone can help me!!

Check out the "easy-rsa" package included with OpenVPN.  It supplies its own
openssl.cnf file.
 
James

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