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NAME
openconnect - Connect to Cisco AnyConnect VPN
SYNOPSIS
openconnect [--config configfile] [-b,--background] [--pid-file pidfile] [-c,--certificate cert]
[-e,--cert-expire-warning days] [-k,--sslkey key] [-C,--cookie cookie] [--cookie-on-stdin]
[--compression MODE] [-d,--deflate] [-D,--no-deflate] [--force-dpd interval]
[-g,--usergroup group] [-h,--help] [--http-auth methods] [-i,--interface ifname]
[-l,--syslog] [--timestamp] [--passtos] [-U,--setuid user] [--csd-user user] [-m,--mtu mtu]
[--base-mtu mtu] [-p,--key-password pass] [-P,--proxy proxyurl] [--proxy-auth methods]
[--no-proxy] [--libproxy] [--key-password-from-fsid] [-q,--quiet] [-Q,--queue-len len]
[-s,--script vpnc-script] [-S,--script-tun] [-u,--user name] [-V,--version] [-v,--verbose]
[-x,--xmlconfig config] [--authgroup group] [--authenticate] [--cookieonly] [--printcookie]
[--cafile file] [--disable-ipv6] [--dtls-ciphers list] [--dtls-local-port port]
[--dump-http-traffic] [--no-system-trust] [--pfs] [--no-dtls] [--no-http-keepalive]
[--no-passwd] [--no-xmlpost] [--non-inter] [--passwd-on-stdin] [--protocol proto]
[--token-mode mode] [--token-secret {secret[,counter]|@file}] [--reconnect-timeout]
[--resolve host:ip] [--servercert sha1] [--useragent string] [--local-hostname string]
[--os string] [https://]server[:port][/group]
DESCRIPTION
The program openconnect connects to Cisco "AnyConnect" VPN servers, which use standard TLS and DTLS
protocols for data transport.
The connection happens in two phases. First there is a simple HTTPS connection over which the user
authenticates somehow - by using a certificate, or password or SecurID, etc. Having authenticated, the
user is rewarded with an HTTP cookie which can be used to make the real VPN connection.
The second phase uses that cookie in an HTTPS CONNECT request, and data packets can be passed over the
resulting connection. In auxiliary headers exchanged with the CONNECT request, a Session-ID and Master
Secret for a DTLS connection are also exchanged, which allows data transport over UDP to occur.
OPTIONS
--config=CONFIGFILE
Read further options from CONFIGFILE before continuing to process options from the command line.
The file should contain long-format options as would be accepted on the command line, but without
the two leading -- dashes. Empty lines, or lines where the first non-space character is a #
character, are ignored.
Any option except the config option may be specified in the file.
-b,--background
Continue in background after startup
--pid-file=PIDFILE
Save the pid to PIDFILE when backgrounding
-c,--certificate=CERT
Use SSL client certificate CERT which may be either a file name or, if OpenConnect has been built
with an appropriate version of GnuTLS, a PKCS#11 URL.
-e,--cert-expire-warning=DAYS
Give a warning when SSL client certificate has DAYS left before expiry
-k,--sslkey=KEY
Use SSL private key KEY which may be either a file name or, if OpenConnect has been built with an
appropriate version of GnuTLS, a PKCS#11 URL.
-C,--cookie=COOKIE
Use WebVPN cookie. COOKIE
--cookie-on-stdin
Read cookie from standard input.
-d,--deflate
Enable all compression, including stateful modes. By default, only stateless compression
algorithms are enabled.
-D,--no-deflate
Disable all compression.
--compression=MODE
Set compression mode, where MODE is one of stateless , none , or all .
By default, only stateless compression algorithms which do not maintain state from one packet to
the next (and which can be used on UDP transports) are enabled. By setting the mode to all
stateful algorithms (currently only zlib deflate) can be enabled. Or all compression can be
disabled by setting the mode to none .
--force-dpd=INTERVAL
Use INTERVAL as minimum Dead Peer Detection interval for CSTP and DTLS, forcing use of DPD even
when the server doesn't request it.
-g,--usergroup=GROUP
Use GROUP as login UserGroup
-h,--help
Display help text
--http-auth=METHODS
Use only the specified methods for HTTP authentication to a server. By default, only Negotiate,
NTLM and Digest authentication are enabled. Basic authentication is also supported but because it
is insecure it must be explicitly enabled. The argument is a comma-separated list of methods to be
enabled. Note that the order does not matter: OpenConnect will use Negotiate, NTLM, Digest and
Basic authentication in that order, if each is enabled, regardless of the order specified in the
METHODS string.
-i,--interface=IFNAME
Use IFNAME for tunnel interface
-l,--syslog
Use syslog for progress messages
--timestamp
Prepend a timestamp to each progress message
--passtos
Copy TOS / TCLASS of payload packet into DTLS packets.
-U,--setuid=USER
Drop privileges after connecting, to become user USER
--csd-user=USER
Drop privileges during CSD (Cisco Secure Desktop) script execution.
--csd-wrapper=SCRIPT
Run SCRIPT instead of the CSD (Cisco Secure Desktop) script.
-m,--mtu=MTU
Request MTU from server as the MTU of the tunnel.
--base-mtu=MTU
Indicate MTU as the path MTU between client and server on the unencrypted network. Newer servers
will automatically calculate the MTU to be used on the tunnel from this value.
-p,--key-password=PASS
Provide passphrase for certificate file, or SRK (System Root Key) PIN for TPM
-P,--proxy=PROXYURL
Use HTTP or SOCKS proxy for connection. A username and password can be provided in the given URL,
and will be used for authentication. If authentication is required but no credentials are given,
GSSAPI and automatic NTLM authentication using Samba's ntlm_auth helper tool may be attempted.
--proxy-auth=METHODS
Use only the specified methods for HTTP authentication to a proxy. By default, only Negotiate,
NTLM and Digest authentication are enabled. Basic authentication is also supported but because it
is insecure it must be explicitly enabled. The argument is a comma-separated list of methods to be
enabled. Note that the order does not matter: OpenConnect will use Negotiate, NTLM, Digest and
Basic authentication in that order, if each is enabled, regardless of the order specified in the
METHODS string.
--no-proxy
Disable use of proxy
--libproxy
Use libproxy to configure proxy automatically (when built with libproxy support)
--key-password-from-fsid
Passphrase for certificate file is automatically generated from the fsid of the file system on
which it is stored. The fsid is obtained from the statvfs(2) or statfs(2) system call, depending
on the operating system. On a Linux or similar system with GNU coreutils, the fsid used by this
option should be equal to the output of the command:
stat --file-system --printf=%i\\n $CERTIFICATE
It is not the same as the 128-bit UUID of the file system.
-q,--quiet
Less output
-Q,--queue-len=LEN
Set packet queue limit to LEN pkts
-s,--script=SCRIPT
Invoke SCRIPT to configure the network after connection. Without this, routing and name service
are unlikely to work correctly. The script is expected to be compatible with the vpnc-script which
is shipped with the "vpnc" VPN client. See http://www.infradead.org/openconnect/vpnc-script.html
for more information. This version of OpenConnect is configured to use /usr/share/vpnc-
scripts/vpnc-script by default.
On Windows, a relative directory for the default script will be handled as starting from the
directory that the openconnect executable is running from, rather than the current directory. The
script will be invoked with the command-based script host cscript.exe.
-S,--script-tun
Pass traffic to 'script' program over a UNIX socket, instead of to a kernel tun/tap device. This
allows the VPN IP traffic to be handled entirely in userspace, for example by a program which uses
lwIP to provide SOCKS access into the VPN.
-u,--user=NAME
Set login username to NAME
-V,--version
Report version number
-v,--verbose
More output (may be specified multiple times for additional output)
-x,--xmlconfig=CONFIG
XML config file
--authgroup=GROUP
Choose authentication login selection
--authenticate
Authenticate only, and output the information needed to make the connection a form which can be
used to set shell environment variables. When invoked with this option, openconnect will not make
the connection, but if successful will output something like the following to stdout:
COOKIE=3311180634@13561856@1339425499@B315A0E29D16C6FD92EE...
HOST=10.0.0.1
FINGERPRINT=469bb424ec8835944d30bc77c77e8fc1d8e23a42
Thus, you can invoke openconnect as a non-privileged user (with access to the user's PKCS#11
tokens, etc.) for authentication, and then invoke openconnect separately to make the actual
connection as root:
eval `openconnect --authenticate https://vpnserver.example.com`;
[ -n $COOKIE ] && echo $COOKIE |
sudo openconnect --cookie-on-stdin $HOST --servercert $FINGERPRINT
--cookieonly
Fetch webvpn cookie only; don't connect
--printcookie
Print webvpn cookie before connecting
--cafile=FILE
Cert file for server verification
--disable-ipv6
Do not advertise IPv6 capability to server
--dtls-ciphers=LIST
Set OpenSSL ciphers to support for DTLS
--dtls-local-port=PORT
Use PORT as the local port for DTLS datagrams
--dump-http-traffic
Enable verbose output of all HTTP requests and the bodies of all responses received from the
server.
--no-system-trust
Do not trust the system default certificate authorities. If this option is given, only certificate
authorities given with the --cafile option, if any, will be trusted automatically.
--pfs Enforces Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). That ensures that if the server's long-term key is
compromised, any session keys established before the compromise will be unaffected. If this option
is provided and the server does not support PFS in the TLS channel the connection will fail.
PFS is available in Cisco ASA releases 9.1(2) and higher; a suitable cipher suite may need to be
manually enabled by the administrator using the ssl encryption setting.
--no-dtls
Disable DTLS
--no-http-keepalive
Version 8.2.2.5 of the Cisco ASA software has a bug where it will forget the client's SSL
certificate when HTTP connections are being re-used for multiple requests. So far, this has only
been seen on the initial connection, where the server gives an HTTP/1.0 redirect response with an
explicit Connection: Keep-Alive directive. OpenConnect as of v2.22 has an unconditional workaround
for this, which is never to obey that directive after an HTTP/1.0 response.
However, Cisco's support team has failed to give any competent response to the bug report and we
don't know under what other circumstances their bug might manifest itself. So this option exists
to disable ALL re-use of HTTP sessions and cause a new connection to be made for each request. If
your server seems not to be recognising your certificate, try this option. If it makes a
difference, please report this information to the openconnect-devel@lists.infradead.org mailing
list.
--no-passwd
Never attempt password (or SecurID) authentication.
--no-xmlpost
Do not attempt to post an XML authentication/configuration request to the server; use the old
style GET method which was used by older clients and servers instead.
This option is a temporary safety net, to work around potential compatibility issues with the code
which falls back to the old method automatically. It causes OpenConnect to behave more like older
versions (4.08 and below) did. If you find that you need to use this option, then you have found a
bug in OpenConnect. Please see http://www.infradead.org/openconnect/mail.html and report this to
the developers.
--non-inter
Do not expect user input; exit if it is required.
--passwd-on-stdin
Read password from standard input
--protocol=PROTO
Select VPN protocol PROTO to be used for the connection. Supported protocols are anyconnect for
Cisco AnyConnect (the default), and nc for experimental support for Juniper Network Connect (also
supported by Junos Pulse servers).
--token-mode=MODE
Enable one-time password generation using the MODE algorithm. --token-mode=rsa will call
libstoken to generate an RSA SecurID tokencode, --token-mode=totp will call liboath to generate an
RFC 6238 time-based password, and --token-mode=hotp will call liboath to generate an RFC 4226
HMAC-based password. Yubikey tokens which generate OATH codes in hardware are supported with
--token-mode=yubioath
--token-secret={ SECRET[,COUNTER] | @FILENAME }
The secret to use when generating one-time passwords/verification codes. Base 32-encoded
TOTP/HOTP secrets can be used by specifying "base32:" at the beginning of the secret, and for HOTP
secrets the token counter can be specified following a comma.
RSA SecurID secrets can be specified as an Android/iPhone URI or a raw numeric CTF string (with or
without dashes).
For Yubikey OATH the token secret specifies the name of the credential to be used. If not
provided, the first OATH credential found on the device will be used.
FILENAME, if specified, can contain any of the above strings. Or, it can contain a SecurID XML
(SDTID) seed.
If this option is omitted, and --token-mode is "rsa", libstoken will try to use the software token
seed saved in ~/.stokenrc by the "stoken import" command.
--reconnect-timeout
Keep reconnect attempts until so much seconds are elapsed. The default timeout is 300 seconds,
which means that openconnect can recover VPN connection after a temporary network down time of 300
seconds.
--resolve=HOST:IP
Automatically resolve the hostname HOST to IP instead of using the normal resolver to look it up.
--servercert=HASH
Accept server's SSL certificate only if the provided fingerprint matches. The allowed fingerprint
types are SHA1, and SHA256. They are distinguished by the 'sha1:' or 'sha256:' prefixes to the
hex encoded hash. To ease certain testing use-cases, a partial match of the hash will also be
accepted, if it is at least 4 characters.
--useragent=STRING
Use STRING as 'User-Agent:' field value in HTTP header. (e.g. --useragent 'Cisco AnyConnect VPN
Agent for Windows 2.2.0133')
--local-hostname=STRING
Use STRING as 'X-CSTP-Hostname:' field value in HTTP header. For example --local-hostname 'mypc',
will advertise the value 'mypc' as the suggested hostname to point to the provided IP address.
--os=STRING
OS type to report to gateway. Recognized values are: linux, linux-64, win, mac-intel, android,
apple-ios. Reporting a different OS type may affect the dynamic access policy (DAP) applied to
the VPN session. If the gateway requires CSD, it will also cause the corresponding CSD trojan
binary to be downloaded, so you may need to use --csd-wrapper if this code is not executable on
the local machine.
SIGNALS
In the data phase of the connection, the following signals are handled:
SIGINT performs a clean shutdown by logging the session off, disconnecting from the gateway, and running
the vpnc-script to restore the network configuration.
SIGHUP disconnects from the gateway and runs the vpnc-script, but does not log the session off; this
allows for reconnection later using --cookie.
SIGUSR2
forces an immediate disconnection and reconnection; this can be used to quickly recover from LAN
IP address changes.
SIGTERM
exits immediately without logging off or running vpnc-script.
LIMITATIONS
Note that although IPv6 has been tested on all platforms on which openconnect is known to run, it depends
on a suitable vpnc-script to configure the network. The standard vpnc-script shipped with vpnc 0.5.3 is
not capable of setting up IPv6 routes; the one from git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/vpnc-scripts.git
will be required.
AUTHORS
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> OPENCONNECT(8)