VPN in Linux

Installation and usage of a VPN client on Linux

Prerequisite

To be able to use VPN to access the GFZ network you have to activate VPN on the "Passwords & Services" site on the intranet.

Installation

In case this is the first time you establish a VPN connection via ASA, you need to install the Cisco Secure client.

Go to asa.gfz.de.
Select "GFZ employees" and click Login.

In the new window, log in with your GFZ username and domain password.
Then enter the code from your 2-factor authentication device.

Click on "Download for Linux" to download the Cisco Secure Client.

Open a terminal and navigate to the downloaded cisco-secure-client-linux64-#.#.#.##-core-vpn-webdeploy-k9.sh file.

Run the following command: (Replace the "#" with the actual version number).

sudo bash cisco-secure-client-linux64-#.#.#.##-core-vpn-webdeploy-k9.sh

Advice for OpenSUSE

For the graphical user interface of Secure Client the library libpangox.so have to be installed in OpenSUSE. Please install this via Yast if necessary.

ldd /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui
...
libpangox-1.0.so.0 => not found

zypper in libpangox-*

How to connect

Start Cisco Secure Client.

Enter "asa.gfz.de" as the server address and click "Connect".

Select "GFZ-Mitarbeiter" as the group.
In the new window, log in with your GFZ user name and domain password.

Enter the code from your 2-factor authentication device in the "Token" field.

Click on "Log in". The VPN connection is established.

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