[Openswan Users] Some questions

[Nate Carlson]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Frédéric Gonzatti wrote:
> I've followed the very useful Nate Carlson tutorial (the last one) and
> I've got an error message with ipsec.secrets when I enter ipsec verify.
>
> The error message is :
> Checking for RSA private key /etc/ipsec.secrets		[FAILED]
> ipsec showhostkey : no default key in /etc/ipsec.secrets
>
> My ipsec.secrets looks like this :
> : RSA host.example.com.key "certificate password"
>
> There is a host.example.com.key in my /etc/ipsec.d/private

That is perfectly normal - if you're using a X509 key in an external file,
verify isn't set up to look for it.

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