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TXT_DB error number 2 failed to update database

November 13, 2013 by Igor Drobot 17 Comments

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While signing a certificate for a new OpenVPN user, I received the following error message which stops the whole process (exit code 1)

Certificate is to be certified until Nov 6 08:53:05 2023 GMT (3650 days)
Sign the certificate? [y/n]:y
failed to update database
TXT_DB error number 2

Problem:
Because you have generated your own self signed certificate with the same CN (Common Name) information that the CA certificate that you’ve generated before.

Enter another Common Name.

Filed Under: Linux, OpenVPN Tagged With: OpenVPN, Roadwarrior

Mac OS X OpenVPN with Tunnelblick

August 28, 2012 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment

Tunnelblick is free opensource GUI for MAC OS X its a great alternative to OpenVPN GUI.

This thread will show you how it is easy to configure and use Tunnelblick, if you used a OpenVPN GUI before you can copy your configuration and your certificate files to your MAC.

You can get Tunnelblick from [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apple, Mac OS X, Networking Tagged With: Apple, MAC OS X, OpenVPN, Tunnelblick

OpenVPN Road Warrior Setup

May 18, 2011 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment

This is my second OpenVPN road warrior setup, I write this post from my first pre created drafts. Its more than one year ago, I combined some steps and command, to make it human readable and a little bit friendly :)

Setup map:

First we need to install the needed OpenVPN package:

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apt-get update && apt-get install openvpn

apt-get update && apt-get install openvpn

Copy the helper scripts to make the life easier, they will help you to create keys and certificates: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Debian, Linux, Mobile, Networking Tagged With: OpenVPN, road warrior, Secure VPN, SSL, VPN

OpenVPN 2 Cookbook

May 8, 2011 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment

Some days ago I was informed by Ananjan Chaudhuri about the new OpenVPN 2 Cookbook written by Jan Just Keijser, I love OpenVPN and I took a look in to the free sample chapters. I found them really interesting, because I use OpenVPN to establish secure tunnel between my WAN MySQL-Server Databases and my email server.

To red my private emails on my mobile phone I prefer to use a secure connection to my IMAP-server.

Ananjan offered me [Read more…]

Filed Under: Linux Tagged With: Book, OpenVPN

OpenVPN site to site setup

December 24, 2010 by Igor Drobot 6 Comments


Before I changed to OpenVPN I used racoon IPSEC tool. It was very unstable for my setup, because one VPN site has a dynamical IP-Address and only with dirty workarounds was it possible to use it.
After some unsuccessful tries with openswan:( I decided to try OpenVPN and I had luck I found very useful blog of (Sébastien Wains) which was my clue to my working VPN.

I draw a little map of my VPN setup:
Map
[Read more…]

Filed Under: Debian, Linux, Networking Tagged With: IPSEC, openswan, OpenVPN, persist-tun, racoon