VPN tips

To automaticaly connect to the UGA VPN, you can create a bash script named vpn-connect.sh and containing the following information:

#!/bin/bash

# Define VPN server, username, password, and group
VPN_SERVER="vpn.grenet.fr"
VPN_USER="your-username-here"
VPN_PASSWORD="your-password-here"
VPN_GROUP="Personnels UGA"

# Path to the log file
OCLOG="$HOME/vpn_connection.log"

echo "Connecting to VPN at $VPN_SERVER with username $VPN_USER"
echo "You may be prompted for your sudo password if necessary..."

# Use openconnect with protocol, group, and password provided via echo
echo "$VPN_PASSWORD" | sudo openconnect --protocol=anyconnect --authgroup="$VPN_GROUP" --user="$VPN_USER" "$VPN_SERVER" --passwd-on-stdin | tee -a "$OCLOG"

echo "VPN connection established. Logs can be found at $OCLOG"

WARNING

You don’t have to save your password in vpn-connect.sh. If you leave the VPN_PASSWORD blank, you will be prompted to type your password. If you choose to write your password in the file, you can still protect the file using:

sudo chown root:root vpn-connect.sh
sudo chmod 700 vpn-connect.sh