Géant VPN service for NREN members

You need an application for Google Authenticator. It can be either:

You have received a privnote like this:

You can use the secret key to configure Google Authenticator

The VPN credentials consist of your username and the password is your password + 6 digits OTP code

Once you've established a VPN connection you can access the SSH Jail on the VPN server:

ssh -6 maxadamo.vpn@jump01.geant.org

You need to supply your username and your password followed by the OTP code.

Once you access the chroot jail you can can use the passwd command to reset your password.

The password expires in 365 days and you'll be notified beforehand.

Uncomment the following lines:

up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf

You can connect the VPN as following:

sudo openvpn --config /path/to/config.ovpn

Download the OpenVPN client

You can upload the following OpenVPN client configuration file into it.

During the installation uncheck the service installation (this is needed if you want to run an OpenVPN server).

Download Tunnelblick

I haven't tested Tunnelblick, but I can see from its documentation that it's possible to upload the following OpenVPN client configuration file into it.

Please refer to Tunnelblick documentation.

To create a connection:

%sudo  all=nopasswd: /usr/sbin/openvpn*