This is a cross-platform GUI client for OpenConnect, written in Rust and designed to work seamlessly on Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop systems. The program utilizes various technologies including MSYS2, Tauri, React, and NextUI. It provides a user-friendly interface for connecting to VPN servers using both password and OIDC authentication methods.
GUI:
Supports Windows(x64), Linux(x64), and macOS(aarch64, x64)
Download can be found in Releases
CLI install:
Only supports Linux(x64) and macOS(aarch64, x64)
Run the following command in your terminal:
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hlhr202/Openconnect-RS/main/install-cli.sh | bash
Run the following command in your terminal:
openconnect --help
This will print the following help message:
A CLI client to connect to VPN using OpenConnect
Usage: openconnect <COMMAND>
Commands:
start Connect to a VPN server and run in daemon mode [aliases: connect, run]
status Get the current VPN connection status [aliases: info, stat]
stop Close the current connection and exit the daemon process [aliases: kill, disconnect]
add Add new VPN server configuration to local config file [aliases: new, create, insert]
import Import VPN server configurations from a base64 encoded string
export Export VPN server configurations to a base64 encoded string
delete Delete a VPN server configuration from local config file [aliases: rm, remove, del]
list List all VPN server configurations in local config file [aliases: ls, l]
logs Show logs of the daemon process [aliases: log]
gen-complete Generate shell completion script
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
For each subcommand, you can run openconnect <COMMAND> --help
to get more information
For example:
openconnect start --help
This will print the following help message:
Connect to a VPN server and run in daemon mode
Usage: openconnect start [OPTIONS] <NAME>
Arguments:
<NAME> The server name saved in local config file to connect to
Options:
-c, --config-file <CONFIG_FILE> The path to the local config file
-h, --help Print help
ZSH (Oh My Zsh!)
mkdir -p ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/openconnect
openconnect gen-complete zsh > ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/openconnect/openconnect.plugin.zsh
Then add openconnect
to the plugins
array in your ~/.zshrc
file:
Bash
mkdir -p ~/.bash_completion
openconnect gen-complete bash > ~/.bash_completion/openconnect
echo "source ~/.bash_completion/openconnect" >> ~/.bashrc
x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
toolchain
x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
toolchain with command rustup default stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
Since Openconnect is released under LGPL license, the core libraries (openconnect-core and openconnect-sys) of this project is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). See the LICENSE file for details.
For some part of this library (openconnect-oidc), it is licensed under the MIT license.
Special thanks to (MORE THAN) the following projects and technologies for making this project possible: