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Re: vpnc or openvpn

by Robert G. Brown :: Rate this Message:

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Sean Dilda wrote:

> Dmitriy Morozov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are there instructions anywhere on how one can use vpnc [1] or
>> openvpn [2] to connect to Duke's network?
>> [1] http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/
>> [2] http://openvpn.net/
>>
>
> I was able to get vpnc to work on Fedora 8.

Bless you for this.  I've been waiting so long for it, since building
vpnclient is a PITA and it doesn't integrate with NetworkManager.

I'll give it a try as soon as I have a spare moment.

    rgb

>
> Step 1:  Rebuild vpnc with a modified Makefile that enables building
> against openssl (or steal my rpms from http://www.duke.edu/~sean/rpms/vpnc/)
>
> Step 2: Download https://software.oit.duke.edu/pub/vpn/vpnclient_win_5.zip
>
> Step 3: Run pcf2vpnc (found in /usr/share/doc/vpnc-0.5.1/) on
> duke-broadband.pcf the zip file in step 2.
>
> Step 4. Copy the output from Step 3 to /etc/vpnc/default.conf
>
> Step 5:  Copy the rootcert file from the zip file to
> /etc/pki/tls/certs/<hash>.0  (that's a .0 after the hash)
>
> You can get the hash by doing:  openssl x509 -in rootcert -noout -hash
>
> Now you can run '/usr/sbin/vpnc' as root and enter in your NetID then
> NetID password when prompted.
>
> And /usr/sbin/vpnc-disconnect when you're done.
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