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The problems connecting to openvpn are unrelated to the kernel version. They occur if one uses the updated default /etc/sudoers content.

There has been an update recently: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/sudo/-/commit/4791df5c3deb6355e6a1fe0b40a13ef27ad060b0

that changes

# Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

to

Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

Activating the secure_path setting will prevent cyberghostvpn from running the /usr/local/cyberghost/openvpn wrapper. This means the original /usr/bin/openvpn wrapper gets called with the unsupported --ncp-disable parameter again - and fails.

To make cyberghostvpn work again with openvpn

a) either comment out the Defaults secure_path=... line in /etc/sudoers again

b) or add /usr/local/cyberghost to the beginning of that line

/etc/sudoers

Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/cyberghost:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

c) or downgrade openvpn to <2.6 - that makes it support the --ncp-disable command line parameter again

I've also has issues connecting recently, I get "Connecting ... An error occured! The VPN connection failed!" Maybe it has something to do with the openvpn update recently. Not sure whether that's a red-herring or not though.

Please may someone help?

Whenever I try to connect to a server, it will complain about Root Certificates.

[shuggy@shuggy-pc ~]$ sudo cyberghostvpn --streaming "channel 4" --connect [sudo] password for shuggy: Prepare OpenVPN connection ... Select server ... london-s416-i11 Connecting ... The "CA" certificate is missing! Downloading configuration ... [shuggy@shuggy-pc ~]$

For everyone who is curious why the sha256sums of a file suddenly differs though the version did not change:

I searched for the original zip file matching to the old sha256 hash (found it here: http://ns360781.ip-91-121-165.eu/downloads/cyberghostvpn-ubuntu-20.04-1.3.4.zip ) and compared the src dirs after running makepkg on the old version 1.4.3-3 and the new one 1.4.3-4:

Result was this:

$ diff -r cyberghostvpn_1.3.4-3/src/ cyberghostvpn_1.3.4-4/src/
diff -r cyberghostvpn_1.3.4-3/src/cyberghostvpn-ubuntu-20.04-1.3.4/install.sh cyberghostvpn_1.3.4-4/src/cyberghostvpn-ubuntu-20.04-1.3.4/install.sh
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<   # get GLIBC version
<   glibcVersion=$(ldd --version | grep -i ldd | awk -F' ' {'print $5'})
<   
<   # get distribution version
<   ubuntuDistroVersion=$(lsb_release -sr)
<   distroName=$(lsb_release -a | grep -i "Distributor ID:" | awk -F' ' {'print $3'})
<   distroVersion=$(lsb_release -a | grep -i "Release:" | awk -F' ' {'print $2'})   
< 
<   echo "Checking if glibc version is compatible"
<   
< 
<   # check if GLIBC version is compatible
<   if [ "$ubuntuDistroVersion" == "16.04" ]; then
<           
<       if [ "$glibcVersion" == "2.23" ] ; then
< 
<           echo "The glibc version is compatible, continue..."
< 
<       else
< 
<           echo "THe glibc version is incompatible, exiting setup..."
<           exit
< 
<       fi
< 
<   elif [ "$ubuntuDistroVersion" == "18.04" ] || [ "$distroName" == "LinuxMint" ]; then
<       
<       if [ "$glibcVersion" == "2.27" ]; then
<       
<           echo "The glibc version is compatible, continue..."
<       
<       else
<       
<           echo "The glibc version is incompatible, exiting setup..."
<           exit
< 
<       fi
< 
<   elif [ "$ubuntuDistroVersion" == "19.10" ]; then
< 
<       if [ "$glibcVersion" == "2.30" ]; then
< 
<           echo "The glibc version is compatible, continue..."
< 
<       else
< 
<           echo "The glibc version is incompatible, exiting setup..."
<           exit
<       fi
< 
<   elif [ "$distroName" == "Kali" ] || [ "$ubuntuDistroVersion" == "19.04" ] || [ "$ubuntuDistroVersion" == "20.04" ]; then
< 
<       if [ "$glibcVersion" == "2.29" ] || [ "$glibcVersion" == "2.31" ] || [ "$glibcVersion" == "2.30" ]; then
< 
<           echo "The glibc version is compatible, continue..."
<       
<       else
< 
<           echo "The glibc version is incompatible, exiting setup..."
<           exit
<       
<       fi
< 
<   elif [ "$distroName" == "Linuxmint" ] && [ "$distroVersion" == "20" ]; then
<       
<       if [ "$glibcVersion" == "2.31" ]; then
<           echo "The glibc version is compatible, continue..."
<       else
<           echo "The glibc version is incompatible, exiting setup..."
<           exit
<       fi
< 
<   else
< 
<       echo "Couldn't detect a valid version of your distribution."
<       echo "Make sure you have downloaded the correct install package for your distribution"
<       echo "Note: We support only the following distributions for Debian based OS:"
<       echo ""
<       echo "-Ubuntu 16.04 "
<       echo "-Ubuntu 18.04 "
<       echo "-Ubuntu 19.04 "
<       echo "-Ubuntu 19.10 "
<       echo "-Ubuntu 20.04 "
<       echo "-Linux Mint 19.2 "
<       echo "-Linux Mint 20"
<       echo "-PopOS 19.10 "
<       echo "-Kali 2019/2020 (glibc version should be 2.29/2.30/2.31 in order to work) "
<       exit
< 
<   fi          
< 
Binary files cyberghostvpn_1.3.4-3/src/cyberghostvpn-ubuntu-20.04-1.3.4.zip and cyberghostvpn_1.3.4-4/src/cyberghostvpn-ubuntu-20.04-1.3.4.zip differ

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
cyberghostvpn-ubuntu-20.04-1.3.4.zip ... FAILED

(fixed)

after reinstall seems to work for me

selecting a server with --countrycode and connecting a number of the list with --connect

Package works great. Thank you so much for maintaining this service!

Just installed and it worked for me. Thank you for creating this, the official company doesn't even provide this.

@superyu1337 I am not a CyberGhost user anymore, and I could not maintain it.

It doesn't seem to be working anymore. Everyime I try to login using --setup it throws an error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "cyberghostvpn.py", line 761, in <module>
  File "cyberghostvpn.py", line 370, in main
  File "cyberghostvpn.py", line 249, in setup
  File "cyberghostvpn.py", line 108, in createDevice
  File "libs/device.py", line 149, in setDevice
  File "libs/device.py", line 79, in create
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'json'
[9526] Failed to execute script cyberghostvpn

@wagner, I think you can contact them, maybe they can provide you with another PKG, please in your account try to download the PKG that they provide for Ubuntu and compare its version with this PKG, and let me know if it was different, maybe I can fix this PKG as well