Re: [OT] Is there a how-to on importing a CISCO certificate file to VPNC?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 18:07 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 13:01 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> > Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 03:14 +0530, Rogue wrote:
> > >> Hi All,
> > >> 
> > >> I am trying to remove my current dependency of Cisco VPN client by 
> > >> switching to VPNC. Unfortunately I am not able to locate any useful 
> > >> documentation on the web :-(  .. Has anyone on this list succeeded in 
> > >> doing this?
> > >> 
> > >> I see that there are certificates and a shared key to be used, but not 
> > >> sure how to go about with it.
> > > 
> > > NetworkManager-vpnc should have an importer for .pcf files, which
> > > contain the VPM definition. This page will allow you to decode the
> > > shared password, then you only need your username and password.
> > > 
> > > http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode
> > 
> > We probably ought to do the decoding ourselves, which might be a little 
> > tricky, but worthwhile IMO.  Filed 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447222
> 
> Actually, see:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322820
> 
> Dan doesn't want it in NM itself, so just parsing the output of the
> decrypt binary would be good enough, IMO.

I'm fine with putting it in NM if we can get a few lawyers to sign off
on it.  Failing that, calling out to a binary would be fine by me, I
think.

Dan