Step by step tutorial to install OpenVPN on redhat/centos 6.X servers in the Amazon EC2 Cloud. Login to the Amazon EC2 Cloud Install the following # yum install gcc make rpm-build autoconf.noarch zlib-devel pam-devel openssl-devel -y Next download LZO RPM and the repo RPMForge has to be configured # wget http://openvpn.net/release/lzo-1.08-4.rf.src.rpm Prior to adding correct… Read More »
Steps required to login to Linux Servers in Amazon EC2 as a root user. By default root is not allowed to login to Amazon EC2, but you can login as ec2-user as indicated in the steps below. Once you login with ec2-user you can switch to root. Step 1 – Download putty from – http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html… Read More »
Yum Detailed configuration according to specific requirement: Introduction: YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modifier) is the package manager which contains the RPM package files for Linux. RPM package file is a Red Hat Package Manager file that enables easy software installation on Red Hat/CentOS Linux. YUM Repositories hold RPM package files and enable download and installation of… Read More »
You have subscribed to a cloud service and build a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) from an existing image on the cloud …now you need to connect to your linux machine using a putty ( ssh client)…but most of the could providers provide a private key with the .pem extension which putty cannot authenticate directly as… Read More »