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I need my CI/CD on github actions to log into VPN in order to access ssh on server and deploy stuff. VPN server itself works fine, as I tried to do the same sequence on my linux machine and it worked like a charm. But when I try to do it in automated way, it provides the password and it ends there. It doesn't even ask for standard. It happens both on github actions, as well as when I try to pass the last command from my github action on my linux machine.

There is my yml code:

  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Install softether
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install build-essential -y
          wget https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable/releases/download/v4.38-9760-rtm/softether-vpnclient-v4.38-9760-rtm-2021.08.17-linux-x64-64bit.tar.gz
          tar xzvf softether-vpnclient-v4.38-9760-rtm-2021.08.17-linux-x64-64bit.tar.gz
          cd vpnclient
          make
      - name: Setup connection and connect
        run: |
          cd vpnclient
          sudo ./vpnclient start
          (
          echo "2"
          echo ""
          echo "NicCreate myadapter"
          echo "AccountCreate ${{ secrets.VPN_USER }}"
          echo "${{ secrets.PROD_VPN_ADDRESS }}"
          echo "${{ secrets.VPN_HUB }}"
          echo "${{ secrets.VPN_USER }}"
          echo "myadapter"
          echo "AccountPasswordSet myconnection"
          echo "${{ secrets.VPN_PASSWORD }}"
          echo "${{ secrets.VPN_PASSWORD }}"
          echo ""
          echo "standard"
          echo "AccountConnect ${{ secrets.VPN_USER }}"
          ) | ./vpncmd

And this is the output in GitHub actions:

By using vpncmd program, the following can be achieved. 

1. Management of VPN Server or VPN Bridge 
2. Management of VPN Client
3. Use of VPN Tools (certificate creation and Network Traffic Speed Test Tool)


Specify the host name or IP address of the computer that the destination VPN Client is operating on. 
If nothing is input and Enter is pressed, connection will be made to localhost (this computer).

Connected to VPN Client "localhost".

NicCreate command - Create New Virtual Network Adapter
The command completed successfully.

AccountCreate command - Create New VPN Connection Setting




The command completed successfully.

AccountPasswordSet command - Set User Authentication Type of VPN Connection Setting to Password Authentication
Please enter the password. To cancel press the Ctrl+D key.

Password: *********
Confirm input: *********




Error: Process completed with exit code 38.

Any help will be appreciated.

I use GitHub actions with an Ubuntu 20.04 runner, and since last Saturday, started getting an error in Github actions log. I had not changed the yml config.

The error:

Get:79 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 proj-bin amd64 6.3.1-1 [88.8 kB]
Fetched 55.7 MB in 1s (61.8 MB/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl4-gnutls-dev_7.68.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 52.250.76.244 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
Error: Process completed with exit code 100.

I checked the repo and there's a bit different version available:

trying to fetch: libcurl4-gnutls-dev_7.68.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb
      available: libcurl4-gnutls-dev_7.68.0-1ubuntu2.6_amd64.deb

(ubuntu2.6_amd64 vs ubuntu2.5_amd64)

How should I make the installer find this version?

Part of the yml config (complete file):

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    strategy:
      matrix:
        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9]

    services:
      postgres:
        # postgres stuff
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        fetch-depth: 0
    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
      with:
        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: |
        # some python packages

Hi I am new in github actions and I am trying to create a CICD pipline using Github action. I am using a digital ocean droplet UBUNTU 20.04 as my server and I am trying to create a runner as said in ->settings->actions

When I wrote the following command ./config.sh --url https://github.com/basobaasnepal/BasobaasWeb --token DFGFSDF234sf3fg45hd

I got this: Must not run with sudo

I tried to change the from root user to non root user but didn't work. I also tried export {AGENT_ALLOW_RUNASROOT="1"} but no luck there too.

I've setup one of my services to be deployed to ECS (EC2). I have the service and task definition configured via terraform and then to deploy I'm using Github actions where it seems I need to define the task definition again.

It seems both are required, what would be the correct workflow so I can remove the duplicate task definition?

There's also the problem of once this task definition has been deployed via Github actions, the image has been updated which terraform wants to revert.

I have recently rented a VPS running CentOS 8. I want to make countinuous deployment from one of my repos, so that when I push to main the repo is updated. I followed this tutorial on a fresh CentOS installation, with the following action (this is my .yml):

name: Deploy

on: [push]

jobs:
  deploy:
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
    runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - name: Copy repository contents via scp
        uses: appleboy/scp-action@master
        env:
          HOST: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
          USERNAME: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
          PORT: ${{ secrets.PORT }}
          KEY: ${{ secrets.SSH_KEY }}
        with:
          source: "."
          target: "/var/www/deploy"

However, I get the following error:

Copy repository contents via scp

... 2020/12/02 18:05:57 error copy file to dest: ***, error message: ssh: handshake failed: ssh: unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain drone-scp error: error copy file to dest: ***, error message: ssh: handshake failed: ssh: unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain

I have attempted to ssh-add <private_key>, however I get the same error.