Connecting VPNC

Question

I have installed VPNC and Network-Manager-VPNC in Ubuntu x64 and entered the configuration information like Group name, Username under VPN tab and DNS server, Search domains under IPv4 settings. I also added the values like Address and Netmask to the Routes.

Under Transport and Security, I left everything as default. Then I followed this link using-vpnc-command-line-vpn-client to start the VPNC but failed.

So at first, I tried to copy the default.conf to a new file named lullavpn.conf using the command:

cp /etc/vpnc/default.conf lullavpn.conf

but it says:

cp: cannot stat ‘/etc/vpnc/default.conf’: Permission denied

when I try changing directory to by using:

cd /etc

and then again

cd /vpnc

it says:

Permission denied

Question:

So first of all, how do I access VPNC file and secondly, how do I connect and disconnect from VPN?

@roaima Yes, I used "sudo vpnc" for connecting to the vpn but it prompts for my Password, IPSec gateway address, IPSec ID, IpSec Secret and Username for the gateway address. — Arijit Ghosh, Apr 03 '15 at 15:12
You need to tell vpnc what the configuration file is that you want to use. — Chris Davies, Apr 03 '15 at 16:03

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 08 '15 at 14:38

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You need to change your ownership,

if you type ls -la vpnc it probably looks like:

drwx------   ...  vpnc

you want:

drwxr-xr-x   ...  vpnc

so type chmod +rx vpnc

edited Sep 08 '15 at 14:38

Archemar

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answered Sep 08 '15 at 14:34

Wo0o0o0ble

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Or you could just directly edit the config file via sudo nano /etc/vpnc/default.conf – Xenonite Nov 09 '23 at 23:56

Connecting VPNC

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