question again

[Raymond House]

again: raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo openvpn
--config anonymizer_universal.ovpn
[sudo] password for raymond:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for raymond:
Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file:
anonymizer_universal.ovpn
Use --help for more information.
raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$



On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:51 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ok, let's try these two:
>
> cd ~/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>
> *sudo openvpn --config **anonymizer_universal.ovpn*
>
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 at 14:45 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> her is the result: raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$ find
>> $HOME -name '*.ovpn'
>>
>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal.ovpn
>>
>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal.ovpn
>>
>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal.ovpn
>> /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>> (2)/anonymizer_universal.ovpn
>> /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>> (3)/anonymizer_universal.ovpn
>> /home/raymond/Downloads/AnonymizerUniversal.ovpn
>> raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:43 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can you do this command, similar to what you did before, to see what
>>> config file you're supposed to be using?
>>>
>>> find $HOME -name '*.ovpn'
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 at 14:35 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> here is what I get with the sudo
>>>> command:raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo openvpn
>>>> --config anonymizer_universal.ovpn
>>>> [sudo] password for raymond:
>>>> Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file:
>>>> anonymizer_universal.ovpn
>>>> Use --help for more information.
>>>> raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:00 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
>>>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Shot in the dark here..
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you buy and/or download Anonymizer?  Judging by that file list,
>>>>> that's my guess.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I went over to the Anonymizer website, and noticed that you have to
>>>>> "sudo" the config command:
>>>>>
>>>>> *sudo openvpn --config anonymizer_universal.ovpn*
>>>>>
>>>>> Now this is the command I found on their site.  If you're not using
>>>>> Anonymizer, probably best to ignore me for the rest of the day...
>>>>>
>>>>> Beside sudo, they also specified a different .ovpn file.  If you are
>>>>> using Anonymizer, maybe try the command shown here?  I'm just guessing
>>>>> here..
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, I noticed that you extracted everything into /home/raymond/Downloads/etc.
>>>>> I think that you may have misunderstood a step somewhere along the way.
>>>>> It's still ok the way it is!  But just so you know, Downloads (aka
>>>>> ~/Downloads) is in your home folder /home/raymond/Downloads, but /etc is
>>>>> actually a system folder in the root of your system.  I think you may have
>>>>> stuck the two folders together in one command.  You're still ok!  You'll
>>>>> see lots of programs stick their configuration files in /etc.  No damage
>>>>> done here, but I always double-check the instructions whenever I see "/etc"
>>>>> or anything other than the home folder.  Just a security thing..
>>>>>
>>>>> You seem to be having problems with the Linux folder system.  Don't
>>>>> worry, it took me a long time to figure it out too.  It gets even harder if
>>>>> you're coming from a Windows or DOS background.  Here's a youtube video
>>>>> that might help out: https://youtu.be/2qQTXp4rBEE
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 at 13:06 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> this the part that I cant get to work
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but before that step I'm supposed to open the file, thus :
>>>>>>> *Running the OpenVPN client with the downloaded client config file*
>>>>>>> *:*
>>>>>>>  Usually, the easiest way to install an OpenVPN client is to use the
>>>>>>> *--config* argument to specify the location of the downloaded
>>>>>>> client config file:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *openvpn --config client.ovpn*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Raymond House <
>>>>>>> raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> They suggest to Downloads/etc, I tried to do that but I really
>>>>>>>> don't know what I'm doing (as you can see).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Stephen M. Webb <
>>>>>>>> stephen.webb at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>>>>>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 15-03-23 12:25 PM, Raymond House wrote:
>>>>>>>>> > Nothing came up with the first command but here is the result of
>>>>>>>>> the second command:
>>>>>>>>> > raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$  find $HOME
>>>>>>>>> -name 'client.*'
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/anonymizer_universal_openvpn/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>>>> > /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>>>>>>>>> (2)/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>>>> > /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>>>>>>>>> (2)/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>>>> > /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>>>>>>>>> (3)/lib/au/client.key
>>>>>>>>> > /home/raymond/Downloads/anonymizer_universal_openvpn
>>>>>>>>> (3)/lib/au/client.crt
>>>>>>>>> > raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Looking over the how-to at openvpn.org it seem you need to
>>>>>>>>> manually copy
>>>>>>>>> /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/sample-config-files/client.conf to
>>>>>>>>> some place (maybe $HOME/client.ovpn, to start) and
>>>>>>>>> edit it to point to the appropriate .key and .crt files, and, um,
>>>>>>>>> stuff.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - --
>>>>>>>>> Stephen M. Webb  <stephen at ubuntu.com>
>>>>>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~bregma
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