VPN at UoU

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

sudo aptitude install vpnc

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

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

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