openconnect Command Examples

A VPN client, for Cisco AnyConnect VPNs and others. More information: https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/manual.html.

• Connect to a server:

openconnect {{vpn.example.org}}

• Connect to a server, forking into the background:

openconnect --background {{vpn.example.org}}

• Terminate the connection that is running in the background:

killall -SIGINT openconnect

• Connect to a server, reading options from a configuration file:

openconnect --config={{path/to/file}} {{vpn.example.org}}

• Connect to a server and authenticate with a specific SSL client certificate:

openconnect --certificate={{path/to/file}} {{vpn.example.org}}