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UTM 9 VPN access for Ubuntu DT 13.10

Dementech
Hi

I need a recommendation and some tutoring I'm sure.

I have an ASG220 UTM 9 and would like to connect to it securely with Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop.

I currently have PPTP and L2TP/IPSec VPNs on the UTM 9; the L2TP/IPSec VPN's authentication mode is set to Preshared Key.

This works fine for Windows computers, but I need a solution for Ubuntu.  I see other options for Remote Access, i.e., SSL, HTML5 VPN Portal, and Cisco VPN Client.  Would one of those VPN options be more suitable for a secure VPN connection from Ubuntu?

Could someone please help with a step-by-step how-to, or point me to some good documentation.

Thanks


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  • 0
    First of all if you want to securely connect drop PPTP (it's just not the most secure method of connecting).

    I don't have a step-by-step how-to, but I would try going with SSL VPN (which uses OpenVPN and that would most likely also be available in Ubuntu). Your users can download the necessary files from the userportal after configuring SSL-VPN in the UTM.

    Managing several Sophos UTMs and Sophos XGs both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

    Sometimes I post some useful tips on my blog, see blog.pijnappels.eu/category/sophos/ for Sophos related posts.

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    Hi apijnappels

    I appreciate your response, but it's not really very helpful.
    Making a suggestion is all well and good, but the suggestion doesn't help unless details are provided.
     
    I have enabled the SSL VPN, made sure my account was allowed to use it, downloaded the sslvpn.zip from the portal to ubuntu desktop, unzipped it, browsed for the user.crt, ca.crt and user.key; they are set in the certificates (tls) authentication type. And there in itself is a good point: there are 4 different options for the authentication type. Also, I do have a masq rule in place for the SSL VPN.

    Are you actually using an SSL VPN, or did you just think it was a good suggestion?
    If you are using an SSL VPN, how do you have it configured?

    I'm using Virtual private network openvpn by the way.

    Thanks to anyone who can reply with some good details.
  • 0 in reply to Dementech

    Thanks to anyone who can reply with some good details.


    Try this howto guide. Ignore the specifics regarding IPVanish (images 4-6). Instead you'd want to select the user@domain.ovpn file that comes in the ZIP that you download from your User Portal.

    https://www.ipvanish.com/visualguides/OpenVPN/Ubuntu/
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    Hi agentdr8,

    Thank you very much for the visual guide; i'll give it a try and post the results.
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    I'm actually using SSL VPN with Sophos UTM, but I don't use Ubuntu, I'm more of a Windows guy.
    On Windows if you have an OpenVPN client, it will be able to "read" the .ovpn file and know what to do with it.

    Managing several Sophos UTMs and Sophos XGs both at work and at some home locations, dedicated to continuously improve IT-security and feeling well helping others with their IT-security challenges.

    Sometimes I post some useful tips on my blog, see blog.pijnappels.eu/category/sophos/ for Sophos related posts.

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