I was using PureVPN (with openvpn) on my windows machines and thought I'd try setting that up on linux mint 19.1 (xfce 32 bit).
I followed complete installation process given on their website and all was working fine until I had to move the renamed config file into the openvpn folder.
However, I can't move the config file now to the /etc/openvpn folder for some reason. It does not seems to matter if I command 'mv' in terminal or try to drag & drop it there.
I tried contacting their support, but I don't know when I'll get messaged back or not.
Has any one know what can be a solution for this?
VPN connection issue on mint 17:
Hello,I am using mint 17 64 bit mate. On both PC and lap top.
They are both relatively new installations and I have installed my VPN (openVPN protocol) to both systems.
Somehow The VPN is not connecting on both computers, I have removed the installation completely and reinstall it, but still not able to figure out what is the issue, every time I try to connect it's just keep showing me, reconnecting error.
I can see that there seems to be issues with VPN or network manager is there any other software I could use for my VPN connections?
If the file needs to be under /etc most probably it can be written only by the root user (or some similar user with special rights). You should execute
sudo su - root
therefore, so that you become root , then you can use mv (better: cp = copy) to put the file there.
Notice that you should only do the absolute necessary minimum as root . Switch to the user in a new window, move/copy the file, make sure it has the right file access permissions and then exit this window again IMMEDIATELY. The root user is allowed to do absolutely everything (this includes: destroy absolutely everything) and therefore should be used with the utmost caution.