In fact, I have a question: why there is no way to pass the password on
the command line? Almost all my troubles depend from the use of
--passwd-on-stdin and the difficulty to actually manage to pass it. Again,
maybe I am dumb, but the only way I managed to pass the password on stdin
on Windows has been to invoke tcsh with -c. Weirdly (to me) "echo
MY_SECRET | openconnect.exe --passwd-on-stdin" does not work. Hence, any
way to do this directly from a batch file or from Perl failed miserably.
Again, why not a simple "--password MY_SECRET"? Frankly, it does not seem
less secure than "echo MY_SECRET | openconnect.exe --passwd-on-stdin"
except that the latter seems incredibly fragile on Windows 10....
Thanks!
p.
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On Sun, 17 Sep 2023, Paolo Ienne (严保罗) wrote:
Hello.
First and foremost, a big thank you for the only way I found to connect
reliably to a Cisco VPN with a CLI (and without typing anything) on Windows.
I am still struggling to have VPN always on with Windows 10, ideally without
ever doing anything: I would love to switch on the laptop and VPN is there;
anything disconnects for any reason, the VPN comes back by itself as soon as
connectivity is restored. Honestly, I do not understand if I am dumb or why
this is not immediately possible. Any insight would be great, because I
suspect just about everyone would want that on a laptop (and I had it before
with a non-Cisco VPN).
But I am writing to ask if it is correct that the Windows port of OpenConnect
does not offer the "--background" switch. It seems so (I finally managed to
access the latest build for Windows 10, thinking that the slighter older one
did not have it yet but newer might) but I find this mentioned nowhere.
Last but not least, you may want to note that the links to "master branch for
32-bit Windows or for 64-bit Windows" on
https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/packages.html
are broken. The "Fedora dwmw2/openconnect COPR" mentioned in the next
paragraph actually work--although it was a bit of an adventure to manage to
unpack the multiple layers of archives and compressions to finally get to the
single meaningful file inside the RPM.
Best,
p.
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