Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Configure built-in VPN client in Snow Leopard

MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard comes with built-in VPN client. Snow Leopard did break my Cisco VPN client, so learning how to set up the native client makes me very happy. Steps are:
  • System Preferences > Network
  • Click "+" and pick "VPN" under Interface
  • Choose "Cisco IPSec" as VPN Type
  • Enter a name of your choosing as Service Name
  • Click "Create"
  • Server Address - value of Host from your .pcf file
  • Account name - your user name
  • Password - leave blank and you will be prompted upon establishing a connection
  • click Authentication Settings
  • Shared Secret - either value of GroupPwd from .pcf file; if blank, take value of enc_GroupPwd and decrypt it at http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode
  • Group Name - value of GroupName from .pcf file

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