Now try to connect to this VPN, and enter your NYU netid and password (and also DUO authentication method, just look at the instructions on that new window. The official client is a JAVA one and I am not interested in installing JAVA on my lean Ubuntu installation. You can look at the official guide for MAC/Windows to get a basic idea.Īfter that you can give your vpn whatever name you want, and click 'Add'. Cisco An圜onnect VPN with openvpn & openconnect I was looking for an alternative to Cisco An圜onnect VPN client for my Ubuntu box. Here is a list of NYU site gateway names, the reference is actually for Mac, since NYU doesn't yet have good support page for Ubuntu. For instance, enter '' if you are trying to connect to the VPN site in NYC. Now in 'Gateway', enter the correct NYU site gateway. You will see an option saying 'Cisco Anyconnect Compatible VPN (openconnect)' (this option will not show up if you haven't installed the 3 packages mentioned above.)Ĭlick on it, it will open a 'Add VPN' window. Now open Ubuntu network settings, click the + symbol on the VPN panel. For VPN setup and usage instructions using the command line interface in. Reference: Then set up VPN for a particular global site. First Install necessary system packages, use sudo apt-get install to install the following packages. Update: NYU Shanghai now has support page for VPN in ubuntu: This guide is tested on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, but should also work on Ubuntu 16. This is especially for NYU students who use a Ubuntu linux machine and want to use VPN outside campus, or connect to VPN at other NYU global site (NYU Shanghai VPN for example). This is a short guide on using cisco anyconnect vpn on ubuntu. OpenConnect is a cross-platform multi-protocol SSL VPN client which supports a number of VPN protocols: Cisco An圜onnect (-protocolanyconnect).

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