have you tried linuxnewbie.org? They've got pretty decent coverage of a lot of different areas, so they might have an answer...
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 06:40, Tommy Eaton wrote: > Hi there, > > I need to setup a VPN connection from a mandrake 8.2 box and a Win98 client > running SSH Sentinel. Unfortunately I have been having a rather rough > time... I've read a few docs but unfortunately not all of it is clear. > Recently I came across this very user friendly document: > > http://www.ssh.com/products/sentinel/SSH-Sentinel-1.3-FreeSWAN.pdf > <http://www.ssh.com/products/sentinel/SSH-Sentinel-1.3-FreeSWAN.pdf> > > This document is ideal because it provides step by step instructions from > downloading the source to the final stages (plus the PDF format is a nice > look). The downside is that it's for an older version of Red Hat. I've > actually thought about getting Red Hat as a last resort, but maybe you guys > can enlighten me as I'd like to stay with Mandrake as much as possible... > > Refering to that PDF link above, I substituted the first two chapters for > # Urpmi freeswan > and > downloading the x509 patch from http://mairas.iki.fi/projects/ipsec/ > <http://mairas.iki.fi/projects/ipsec/> > > On 3.2 it says to copy the cacert.pem to /etc/ipsec.d/cacerts/<filename>. > But since there is no /etc/ipsec.d in mdk 8.2, I copied the file to > /usr/lib/ipsec. (I also noticed in 8.2 there is /etc/freeswan directory, > but that only has the ipsec.conf and ipsec.secrets file.) I also noticed > that when they list /usr/share/ssl etc, it should be /usr/lib/ssl and so > forth. > > Finally I try to setup the keys/certs with SSH sentinel. The request goes > fine, the signing appears fine, but when I try to import the final signed > cert, SSH doesn't seem to trust it. > > Can you guys see where I might be screwing up? Also, can you recommend a > good step-by-step newbie how to that explains this mdk8.2/ssh sentinel setup > that I am trying to accomplish? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- David A. Bartmess Sr. Software Configuration Manager eDingo Enterprises http://edingo.net But one should not forget that money can buy a bed but not sleep, finery but not beauty, a house but not a home, medicine but not health, luxuries but not culture, sex but not love, and amusements but not happiness.
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