(Sorry for previous empty reply; I think the control key stuck, so it sent when I hit enter.) On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 10:53 +0100, Johannes Becker wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010 schrieb David Woodhouse: > > > I think you may need to reboot (or at least restart NM and dbus-daemon) > > before the new NetworkManager plugin works. > > Because you can't reboot a Live-CD for this purpuse, I checked > it again with Debian Squeeze. It's too boring to report all the > different ways of failures with network manager. It just confirms > my old opinion that network manager makes things not easier. > It may work with special Linux distributions, but if it fails > there's no help. I think the Fedora LiveCD includes the NetworkManager-openconnect package, so it ought to work out of the box. I think there's a Ubuntu bug filed but the response was "it's better to reboot": https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/458595 > So I will tell our users to work with the command line. If you like, you could abuse the GUI auth-dialog tool so that you at least get a graphical login with choice of available VPN servers. You can run a script (like http://david.woodhou.se/make-nm-vpn.sh), note the UUID it generates, then run nm-openconnect-auth-dialog -u $UUID -n "$ORG VPN login" -s org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openconnect On a successful authentication, it'll spit out the address of the VPN server to connect to, the authentication cookie, and the SHA1 of the server's SSL certificate (to prevent MiTM attacks). Then you can echo $COOKIE | openconnect --servercert $SHA1 --cookie-on-stdin $HOST -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse at intel.com Intel Corporation
