8.8.8.8 is the Google public DNS server and is fine.
As for the permission issue, it's odd. You were able to execute the script through sudo, so it's not a problem with sudo access. Can you upload the screenshot you're talking about to Imgur and paste the link here?

I'm looking for answer on the forum but find nothing... how do I add a picture here?

goto advanced mode (when you write a new post) and click on attachment (next to smiley)

Okay, not an issue with sudo capabilites. Take a look at this.

I managed to fix the sudo issue so now I can do whatever I need to do. So, logged in as root and executed this command for the VPN to work:
And I started the script again command:

Then this fell out:

So I'll contact the support again.

If I'm not permitted to view its content, is that also connected to why script is not working? That the script is not allowed to view the content of resolv.conf as I'm running it?

- You're supposed to modify /etc/resolv.conf while the script is running.
- Why did you choose that DNS server?
- You can't view the content of /etc/resolv.conf? "cat /etc/resolv.conf" doesn't work? Did you follow the directions in the link I sent you?
- Install the missing packages:

The echo command is an output maker so to speak, isn't it?
I have not come to that point yet where I edit files in the terminal.

I did run "sudo apt install curl openvpn wget dialog" but I had everything already.

Cat in its usage shown above doesn't edit a file, it only outputs it.

Dude, I had to figure out some real shit all by myself here ;-)

The "software" HMA has, to make my computer hide its ip and such, IS the SCRIPT!!! I didn't hear that anywhere by anyone and that is just f'ng ground breaking to me. You know, I expected the script to do something and leave something behind or leave some settings in my system so that VPN works once and for all, as I THOUGHT IT WOULD! Didn't I make it clear I'm a novis at this, a noob!? LOL

To realize that this itty bitty tiny little script is the actual ENGINE here made me face palm myself, AGAIN!, only this time I figure it's on you HAHA. You are so used to Linux, UNIX and the like that you could not see that I was looking for something more than just a running script in terminal since I come from Windows where we neither have or don't do things like this. When I had MSDOS 6.22 I was doing things like this but that was ages ago :-D

So now I'm figuring if I shouldn't give coding a try and for starters make this sorry little script some clothes, and making it do something more without me having to do it manually every day. Is that how you spark too?

In retrospect, this has been educating, and funny actually. Now I know how it works!

Thanks a million for your help on this, there is nothing more to do now I think.

Cheers!
LOL

Yeah, I don't think there was really much documentation about it on the HMA website, so I guess I can understand that. It's been a while since I was as new to Linux as you, so maybe I'm out of touch.

If you want to automate the script's operation, look into cron. It's a preinstalled program that can schedule tasks, including during the boot process, so if you schedule the script to run @reboot you should always be connected to the VPN unless you manually kill the process.

I'll leave how to do that up to you, since you seem willing to do some scripting.

I suspect that I'm not getting out of setting the passwords here and there during automated start so I'll just go with the manual proceeding until either I make something or the HMA comes up with a better solution.

Coding, scripting, same but different?

If you edit root's crontab instead of a user crontab, I don't believe there will be permissions issues.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ting-vs-coding
Bash code = scripting, C code = coding. Essentially.