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I am new to Linux and I am trying to learn as much as possible. I have installed Ubuntu 13.0.4 and selected basic server, I am now trying to setup VPN to access my files from anywhere. However getting errors when disabling encryption. The steps I am following is below from one of the member here:

I am getting errors on doing the steps below:

refuse-pap
refuse-chap
refuse-mschap

Error message: access denied, even though I am logged on as root.

Any help will be much appreciated!

Kristopher Ives
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user195992
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    Which instructions? Can you add a link to them and can you let us know at what point it goes wrong together with what error message you get – Warren Hill Sep 25 '13 at 12:24
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    @Braiam Comment those lines, not add – Radu Rădeanu Sep 26 '13 at 18:27
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    And Radu beat me to explaining this in an answer. :P But yes, as Radu says, there are no commands to run. You need to edit `/etc/ppp/pptpd-options` as root (`sudo nano /etc/ppp/pptpd-options` or replace `nano` with your favorite command line text editor) and comment out all three of those lines with a `#` character at the beginning. I have edited my answer on the guide/link you're using to expand on how to edit a file on the command line... (sorta). – Thomas Ward Sep 26 '13 at 18:34

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These are no commands to execute them in terminal. At the step 3 it says clear:

3: Edit /etc/ppp/pptpd-options. Comment out these lines, if you want this to work universally on all OSes:

refuse-pap
refuse-chap
refuse-mschap

You can comment this line if you want to disable encryption: require-mppe-128

So, open /etc/ppp/pptpd-options file with root privileges, using the following command:

sudo -i gedit /etc/ppp/pptpd-options

and comment those lines by adding a hash (#) character in front of each one. When you finish, save the file and clse it.

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Radu Rădeanu
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    Or, use nano, if you're working with a remote server and don't have a GUI. I put instructions to use nano, because I always am working on this stuff remotely and can't X-forward. – Thomas Ward Sep 26 '13 at 18:41
  • Thanks for making it all very clear to me i will go ahead and and edit – user195992 Sep 27 '13 at 20:15
  • Thanks Radu i manged to do that all good now. How ever i am now step 10 were i have to edit the ufw 10: This step assumes you have UFW. Edit /etc/ufw/before.rules, and add the following either at the beginning of /etc/ufw/before.rules or just before the *filter rules (recommended). when the nano editor opened the page was blank i was suprised to see blank screen i still proceeded to enter the details. i am i in the right track here? – user195992 Oct 03 '13 at 21:09
  • @user195992 Where you wish - I will choose recommended... If this answered your question, you may [mark this answer as accepted](http://askubuntu.com/help/someone-answers), by clicking the green check mark next to it. That will indicate that your problem is solved. – Radu Rădeanu Oct 03 '13 at 21:15