[opensuse] Cisco AnyConnect
Our company uses Cisco AnyConnect for VPN in to the company network. They use this on the official Windows computers. Our IT don't do Linux... Does anyone have any experience with AnyConnect on openSUSE? There are some downloads available here: https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286281283/type/282364313/release/4.... I'm not sure which are appropriate. I am guessing that one needs a certificate of some sore to gain access. No idea. Early days. Any pointers or constructive comments are welcome! -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:40 PM Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer@gmail.com> wrote:
Our company uses Cisco AnyConnect for VPN in to the company network. They use this on the official Windows computers. Our IT don't do Linux...
Does anyone have any experience with AnyConnect on openSUSE?
I used in the past vpnc (via NetworkManager) and recently openconnect as replacement for native Cisco clients, both worked. If your IT does not support Linux anyway, you may start with openconnect which at least is already available for openSUSE.
There are some downloads available here:
https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286281283/type/282364313/release/4....
I'm not sure which are appropriate. I am guessing that one needs a certificate of some sore to gain access. No idea.
If the above refers to downloading AnyConnect client, this software is not free. This page makes it pretty clear. You probably can ask your IT to download it for you. Otherwise openconnect is still an option :)
Early days.
Not sure I understand this remark.
Any pointers or constructive comments are welcome!
-- Roger Oberholtzer
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:31 PM Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:40 PM Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer@gmail.com> wrote:
I used in the past vpnc (via NetworkManager) and recently openconnect as replacement for native Cisco clients, both worked. If your IT does not support Linux anyway, you may start with openconnect which at least is already available for openSUSE.
We have a site license. It is on all the Windows PCs. I don't know if the license is per PC or company wide. I will be checking that.
If the above refers to downloading AnyConnect client, this software is not free. This page makes it pretty clear. You probably can ask your IT to download it for you. Otherwise openconnect is still an option :)
I'm going to try openconnect and see where I get. I am guessing some sort of a certificate will be needed at some point.
Early days.
Not sure I understand this remark.
Just started looking. I don't know anything yet. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 3:36 PM Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm going to try openconnect and see where I get. I am guessing some sort of a certificate will be needed at some point.
That is you need to ask your IT. Our company is using two factor authentication where first factor is per-computer unique certificate which is installed and renewed automatically; Windows allows to mark certificate as non-exportable, which means there is no conventional way to reuse it on another computer. And where supported, it is kept in TPM and so it is not accessible at all. If your organization is using similar scheme, it's going to be difficult. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 8/26/19 1:40 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Our company uses Cisco AnyConnect for VPN in to the company network. They use this on the official Windows computers. Our IT don't do Linux...
Does anyone have any experience with AnyConnect on openSUSE?
There are some downloads available here:
https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286281283/type/282364313/release/4....
I'm not sure which are appropriate. I am guessing that one needs a certificate of some sore to gain access. No idea. Early days.
Any pointers or constructive comments are welcome!
We're using it every day at work to connect to a customer's network. Very stable. I'll send you the install instructions tomorrow. IIRC it was just a tar.gz to be extracted, then starting 'install.sh' which just copied it somewhere to /opt, finally adding your settings file which is identical to that for Windows. Ah, yes, it needed some pangox package (which is marked deprecated but works). It's the preferred solution to connect to that customer from inside a VM, because the main laptop (whatever OS that is running) can still remain in the primary network, i.e., connected to our company. A couple of us use openSUSE for this (some colleagues use Leap, I have Tumbleweed), some use SLES11 or 12, some use Ubuntu, or Debian. That package doesn't seem to be very picky. ;-) Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:35 PM Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote:
On 8/26/19 1:40 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Our company uses Cisco AnyConnect for VPN in to the company network. They use this on the official Windows computers. Our IT don't do Linux...
Does anyone have any experience with AnyConnect on openSUSE?
There are some downloads available here:
https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286281283/type/282364313/release/4....
I'm not sure which are appropriate. I am guessing that one needs a certificate of some sore to gain access. No idea. Early days.
Any pointers or constructive comments are welcome!
We're using it every day at work to connect to a customer's network. Very stable. I'll send you the install instructions tomorrow.
That would be greatly appreciated! -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 8/27/19 8:34 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:35 PM Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote:
[...] I'll send you the install instructions tomorrow.
That would be greatly appreciated!
done, off-list. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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