question again

Mon Mar 23 18:31:09 UTC 2015

OK, that looks like the right folder to me, based on what little I know of
this program...

I suppose at this point you can try the command(s) to open the .ovpn file
again, but with sudo.

Again, I'm just taking guesses here, so don't take my word as final!

Please try to copy/paste the results if it doesn't work right.

And yes, Nixie can be a bit quick on a topic.  But she did put out a bunch
of videos that helped me when I was getting started.  You're not limited to
her stuff, though, have a look through youtube for other instructional
videos.  There's some good ones in there.

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 at 14:24 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> here is what I get : raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~$ cd
> ~/Downloads/etc
> raymond at raymond-HP-Pavilion-TS-15-Notebook-PC:~/Downloads/etc$
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:14 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, there's the "official" /etc just off of the root, but in your case I
>> believe we need to work in the folder you created earlier, namely
>>  /home/raymond/Downloads/etc/
>>
>> if you do:
>>
>> cd ~/Downloads/etc
>>
>> you should be in the right folder for this job.  _Should be_ !
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 at 14:09 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes Jeff, I'm trying to get Anonymizer going, I tried your suggestion
>>> and still getting the sane error.I see a folder named "etc" in
>>> home/Downloads/ and I have the openvpn file in it, is this the same "etc"
>>> you are talking about?
>>>
>>> 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-----
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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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