KVpnc - KDE frontend for various vpn clients

Features

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
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
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

- 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

Installation

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

install sudo
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