Cisco VPN on Linux OpenSuse 10.3

I found this guide quite useful :

http://linux.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/cisco-vpn-client-opensuse-103/

Don’t worry about the fact that the link is for a x86-64 version. It works on 32bit systems too.

However, after the installation completed, I could not connect because of an error saying “The profile specified could not be read.” (if you get a “couldn’t connect” message it’s because the vpnclient connect command should be executed as root).

Here are the things to do:

• move the profile under /etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient/Profiles
• check carriage returns of the file are in unix format
• do not use the “.pcf” extension in the sudo vpnclient connect yourPCFfile command