[Openswan Users] VPN to NYU

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Hakim Singhji wrote:

> I need some help, I am a linux newbie and I am trying to connect a my IBM
> Thinkpads VPN client using IPsec/UDP to the NYU VPN server. I don't know where
> exactly to begin so here is the information the University has published. Note,
> it is public so I don't feel it is a threat to post this information.

>    3. Configure the Cisco VPN client that you've installed on your computer.
>           * Configure it to connect to NYU's VPN server vpn.nyu.edu.
>           * Use the Group Access Name nyu-vpn and the Group Password nyu-net.

So this means they are using PSK's. And perhaps (shudder) aggressive mode. If
normally you later (with the cisco client) have to give your user/password (not
the nyu-vpn/nyu-net one, then you also need to enable XAUTH,

See openswan-2/docs/README.AGGRESSIVE and README.XAUTH*

Paul