2020-02-26
Hard-won Ohio State University VPN knowledgeThere is a Chrome OS app client for Cisco AnyConnect. After you install it, open it (within your system it is called just "AnyConnect" without "Cisco") and wait for it to finish saying "Initializing, please wait."
This Cisco page says you have to import a client certificate, but you don't.
Then go to the status area/menu (also contains wireless network settings, Bluetooth, volume, brightness) and open up the VPN settings. Create a connection. Give it a name. (can be arbitrary?)
You need the address of the VPN server. For the College of Arts and Sciences, it's vpn.asc.ohio-state.edu . Again, you don't need a certificate. There's supposedly a university-wide VPN too but I haven't found the details.
Then when you click into the status area, you can select the connection. You need to sign in with name.#, password, and for "second password" you can choose from Duo options: Enter your next SMS code, 'sms' to have new codes sent (and then you'll need to try to sign in again), 'push' to use Duo Mobile, a passcode generated by Duo Mobile, 'phone' to receive a call (answer and press 1).
According to this, you can append numbers to 'phone' and such if you have multiple devices registered. I don't and I haven't tried it.
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