[strongSwan] Permission Denied error

[R. Masucci]

No luck.


I'm in the  /etc/ipsec.d directory and my permissions on that directory are set to:


   drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 14:16 private


Does that all look correct?


________________________________
From: Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen at strongswan.org>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 11:50 PM
To: R. Masucci; users at lists.strongswan.org
Subject: Re: [strongSwan] Permission Denied error

Hi, try

  sudo -s
  ipsec pki --gen > caKey.der

Regards

Andreas

On 19.09.2017 02:24, R. Masucci wrote:
> I just got StrongSwan installed on Ubuntu 14.04 and I tried to create a
> key using the instructions provided:
>
> ipsec pki --gen > caKey.der
>
> gets me the following error:
>
>
> bash: caKey.der: Permission denied
>
>
> I tried to run it with sudo and I get the same error.   I assume the key
> would be populated in:
>
>   /etc/ipsec.d/private
>
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
>

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