Universidade de Aveiro - VPN Linux manager

A quick and easy way to manage your UA's VPN connection.

Overview

This package provide the ua-vpn script to help you manage the access to University of Aveiro CheckPoint VPN server through the command line.

This was developed to work with Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04. Other distributions were not tested.

Requirements

You will need to have docker installed. The linux client, snx, requires 32 bit libraries to be installed. Using docker we can maintain these dependencies separated from your 64 bits host system.

Please follow docker's install instructions to have docker in your system. Make sure you can use docker as non-root.

sudo usermod -aG docker your-user

You will also need curl.

sudo apt install curl

Quick Install

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/eupedrosa/ua-snx-vpn.git

Download snx_install_linux31.sh and put it under the docker directory.

Build the docker image

cd ua-snx-vpn/docker
docker build -t ua-snx-vpn

Now copy the script to you $PATH, e.g.

cd ..
sudo cp ua-vpn /usr/local/bin/ua-vpn
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/ua-vpn