KVpnc - KDE frontend for various vpn clients

Features:
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 - easy to use KDE gui
 - docking in kicker
 - localized GUI (Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovak, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Spanish)
 - VPN connection to Cisco concentrator
    - vpnc (free)
    - vpnclient (propritary)
 - VPN connection to VPN servers by using IPsec
    - FreeS/WAN (Linux 2.4.x) support
    - racoon (Linux 2.6.x/BSD) support
 - PPTP support (pptpclient)
 - OpenVPN support
 - VTun support
 - Multiple profiles
 - preshared secret support
 - X509 certificate support
 - Cisco PCF file import
 - PKCS12 certificate import
 - Ping test
 - automaticlly setting of routes and firewall rules (iptables) (currently: freeswan/racoon)
 - automaticlly network device detection (can be overridden)
 - log file writing
 - DCOP interface
 - user notification for sucessful connect/disconnect
 - NAT-T support (racoon/OpenVPN/vpnc)


Requirements:
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- KDE >= 3.2.x  (required)
- vpnc >= 0.2-rm+zomb-pre9  Cisco VPN (optional)
- FreeS/WAN (OpenS/WAN too) >= 2.x  IPSec VPN Linux 2.4/2.6 (optional)
- racoon (ipsec-tools) > = 1.x  IPSec VPN Linux 2.6 (optional)
- pptpclient  PPTP VPN (optional)
- OpenVPN  VPN based on SSL (optional)
- libgcrypt version >= 1.1.90
- opensc

Installation:
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tar xvfz kvpnc-<version>.tar.gz
cd kvpnc-<version>
make -f admin/Makefile.common
./configure
make
su
make install



Howto setup KVpnc for use without root password - sudo
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1. install sudo

2. edit /etc/sudoers

        #  Cmnd alias specification (change to the path of kvpnc, SuSE: /opt/kde3/bin/kvpnc, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu: /usr/bin/kvpnc)
        Cmnd_Alias KVPNC = /usr/bin/kvpnc
        
        # User privilege specification
        ALL ALL=NOPASSWD:KVPNC

3. edit desktop link (change to the path of kvpnc, SuSE: /opt/kde3/share/applications/kde/Internet/kvpnc.desktop, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu: /usr/share/applications/kde/Internet/kvpnc.desktop)
        
        replace the folling lines:

        Exec=kvpnc
        X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true

        with:

        Exec=sudo kvpnc
        X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
        

        
        
   

(c) 12/24/2005 Christoph Thielecke <crissi99@gmx.de>
