Replacing Junos Pulse with OpenConnect

In an attempt to avoid using the Juniper Pulse (Now Pulse Secure) VPN client we tried OpenConnect but found that DNS did not work correctly when connected to the VPN. This bug has now been resolved recently but has not made it’s way into a new build, in fact there have been no releases for 6 months.

Luckily the OpenConnect was not too difficult to build from source.

Build OpenConnect on OSX

Remove old openconnect and install deps

brew remove openconnect
brew install libxml2 lzlib openssl libtool libevent

Build openconnect

wget git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/openconnect.git/snapshot/0f1ec30d17aa674142552e275bf3fac30d891b39.tar.gz
tar zxvf 0f1ec30d17aa674142552e275bf3fac30d891b39.tar.gz
cd openconnect-0f1ec30

LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize ./autogen.sh
PATH=/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:$PATH
./configure
make
make install

To connect

sudo openconnect --juniper -u myusername www.myserver.com

If you’re comfortable with allowing admin users to run openconnect without entering a sudo password, add the following using sudo visudo:

%admin  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/openconnect