By clane
when adding the command ./build-key client1 i receive the following, Please edit the vars script to reflect your configuration, then source it with “source ./vars”. Next, to start with a fresh PKI configuration and to delete any previous certificates and keys, run “./clean-all”. Finally, you can run this tool (pkitool) to build certificates/keys.
Linux newbie, a bit stuck at this point.
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Hello,
This error means that the file /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars still contains the default values. You will want to open the file with a command such as nano /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/vars and then modify the below values
export KEY_COUNTRY
export KEY_PROVINCE
export KEY_CITY
export KEY_ORG
export KEY_EMAIL
export KEY_OU
export KEY_NAME
You want to update the values on the right side of the " to match what you want your certificate to say. So something like this:
export KEY_COUNTRY="US"
export KEY_PROVINCE="TX"
export KEY_CITY="Dallas"
export KEY_ORG="My Company Name"
export KEY_EMAIL="sammy@example.com"
export KEY_OU="MYOrganizationalUnit"
export KEY_NAME="server"
Then source it as it requests and try generating your keys again.
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