Using VPN under Ubuntu at the University of Utah

The University of Utah campus VPN is a great resource for faculty, staff, and students, but it can be a pain getting to work under Linux. Using the campus VPN under Linux will also help with slowness issues using Evolution to connect to the campus UMail system.

This is a quick tutorial for connecting to the University of Utah campus VPN via Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10.

  1. Install Cisco client for linux

    2. sudo aptitude install vpnc

  2. Save the following file as uouvpn: uofuvpn
  3. Edit uouvpn, put your uNid and uNid password where asked.

    4. gedit uofuvpn

    Xauth username unid
    Xauth password unid-password
    Please replace unid and unid-password with your uNid and uNid password

  4. Launch VPN client

    5. sudo vpnc-connect /home/username/uofuvpn

    Please replace /home/username with the location where you saved the uofuvpn file

To disconnect from the university of Utah VPN, please type

sudo vpnc-disconnect

For More information on the University of Utah campus VPN please goto:
http://www.it.utah.edu/services/connected/vpn/individual.html