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openconnect

The reason behind developing this project was to ease the process of connecting to VPN. In my daily work I constantly required a VPN connection, Cisco AnyConnect client was the obvious choice but because I was facing some issues installing the same in ubuntu so instead I choose openconnect. After following below mentioned step, I am now able to get connected to a vpn using few mouse clicks.

System Requirements

Currently I have tested this only on ubuntu 16.04, hopefully, in coming days I will be adding installation instruction for other OS too.

Installation

  1. Install expect using this command: sudo apt-get install expect

  2. Steps for installing openconnect:

    1. First run command below to active th TUN module: sudo /sbin/modprobe tun
    2. Install OpenConnect: sudo apt-get install openconnect

  3. Download the module and make openconnect script executable like this: chmod +x /path/to/openconnect.sh

  4. Change these variables: GATEWAY, UBUNTUPASSWORD, USERNAME, PASSWORD present in the script (openconnect.sh) as per your environment.

  5. Run the script like this: ./openconnect.sh, this is when you are in the root directory of the module otherwise add the path to your module.

  6. Now we have to install Nautilus-Actions Configuration Tool, type this in the terminal: sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions

  7. Launch the Nautilus-Actions Configuration Tool from the Dash after installing it. dash_nautilus

  8. First, click the New Action button on the toolbar and type the name of your action into the Context Label box, maybe something like this: Connect to VPN nautilus_action

  9. Click the Command tab and in Label box enter any suitable name like VPN and in Path box this: /usr/local/bin/vpn nautilus_command

  10. Since we would need terminal for executing our newly created vpn command, in nautilus-actions tool, go to Edit > Preferences > Runtime Execution. In the "command pattern" field, enter: gnome-terminal -x sh -c COMMAND nautilus_preference

  11. Now we need to restart nautilus typing this command in the terminal: nautilus -q

  12. After this, you can access your newly created VPN command on right clicking under Nautilus-Actions actions. click_nautilus

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