eurephia_init command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

eurephia_init: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eurephia_init: command not found

Solutions to eurephia_init: command not found

How To Fix eurephia_init: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu eurephia_init is provided by eurephia package.

eurephia is:

This plug-in enhances OpenVPN by adding user name and password authentication. An eurephia user account is a combination of minimum one OpenVPN SSL certificate and a user name with a password assigned. It is also possible to setup several eurephia user names to use a shared OpenVPN certificate.

In addition, eurephia will blacklist IP addresses, certificates and user names on too many failed attempts and it supports dynamic update of iptables rules which restricts network access per connection.

All information is stored in a database and all changes to the accounts will be effective immediately. At the moment eurephia supports the SQLite database.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install eurephia

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install eurephia.

sudo apt -y install eurephia

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install eurephia

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix eurephia_init command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.