open ./easyrsa/pki/index.txt: no such file or directory

[PizzaProgram]

Hi,

I get this error, when I try to start ovpn-admin binary from a normal user's account on latest Debian 11. (see title)
But by default the easyrsa is here: /usr/share/easy-rsa

So I've created a symlink to that directory: /home/myusername/easyrsa
idea found here ...

Than I've got this error:

open ./easyrsa/pki/index.txt: no such file or directory

So I've added a path name when starting:
./ovpn-admin --mgmt=main=127.0.0.88:8888 --role="master" --easyrsa.index-path="/etc/openvpn/keys/myservername.hu/index.txt"

Finally the ovpn-admin can start and serving on 8080 port.

But when I try to create a new user on the Web GUI, I get this error:

INFO[0316] 127.0.0.1:56670 /api/user/create
DEBU[0316] cd ./easyrsa && easyrsa build-client-full test88 nopass 1>/dev/null
DEBU[0316] exit status 127 : bash: line 1: easyrsa: command not found

If I try to execute the @easyrsa file from the symink dir, I get this:

ovpn-user@myvpn:~/easyrsa$ ./easyrsa
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/ovpndir/easyrsa/pki/openssl-easyrsa.cnf': Permission denied
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/home/ovpndir/easyrsa/pki/easy-rsa-469343.BjI8y6’: Permission denied
Easy-RSA error:
  Could not create temporary directory '/home/ovpndir/easyrsa/pki/easy-rsa-469343.BjI8y6'. Permission or concurrency problem?

So what is the recommended installation procedure for ovpn-admin ?

• I would like to keep running it secure way / with a different user, so if someone is accessing this webGUI, won't be able to access the whole server.
• Does that "ovpn-user" needs access to the openvpn directory too ? Or the easyrsa path is enough?
• What path will be the clients placed ?

Thanks for any help / clarification !

[PizzaProgram]

This is my current Path config, made automatically by Webmin's openvpn module:

[abuyusif01]

actually this is not an error, not at all

Look at the help page of ovpn-admin. the param --easyrsa.path is equal to "./easy-rsa" by default
You need to change it to whatever is the real path of ur easy-rsa dir.

In my case its
sudo ./ovpn-admin --easyrsa.index-path="/etc/openvpn/server/easy-rsa/pki/index.txt" --easyrsa.path="/etc/openvpn/server/easy-rsa"

Oh yeah u need to run it as root, or u can symlink the folder to somewhere u have rw+ perm