Ubuntu 16.04 - Ubuntu Server Guide - VPN - OpenVPN

Bug #1724124 reported by Drew Davis
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Server Guide
Fix Released
Undecided
Charles B Gibby
easy-rsa (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
openvpn (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I'm currently doing the following Ubuntu 16.04 server guide:

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/openvpn.html

When it comes to the "Certificate Authority Setup" in trying to generate the master Certificate Authority (CA) certificate and key. You get the following error after doing "./build-ca":

140529258620568:error:0E065068:configuration file routines:STR_COPY:variable has no value:conf_def.c:584:line 198

Looking at developers github page (https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/blob/master/easyrsa3/easyrsa), it states to "add a subjectAltName".

After adding, "export KEY_ALTNAME="something", to the /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars I was able to complete the ./build-ca

Please modify this server guide so no one else runs into this issue.

Related branches

tags: added: xenial
Revision history for this message
Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote :

Hey! Thanks for taking the time to file a bug and suggest a fix! I've marked the issue confirmed for the server guide and invalid for easy-rsa and openvpn as it is not really a bug in those packages.

I've also added this to our backlog and marked it as a bitesize bug as it should be fairly easy to fix up.

Thanks again!

Changed in openvpn (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in easy-rsa (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
Changed in serverguide:
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: bitesize
Revision history for this message
Drew Davis (davisdre) wrote :

Joshua, you are welcome. Glad to have helped!!!

Changed in serverguide:
assignee: nobody → Charles B Gibby (klemorali)
Changed in serverguide:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in serverguide:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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