We can connect to Cisco AnyConnect VPN without providing the password and Accept each time.
In my case, I’ve used Exchange. Microsoft Outlook (Exchange) uses the same password as I used for VPN. In Mac OS, we can retrieve this Exchange password from the keychain access app through /usr/bin/security.
But to access the keychain through security first we need to allow the app to access it. To do it, when we first run this app it will asks for the password to access the Exchange’s keychain. Once we entered the password we need to click “Always allow” instead of Allow (by clicking Always allow it will add entry in Access Control for security). Otherwise it will ask for the password again. We can verify if only these two applications are allowed to access the keychain by navigating to keychain access app and select Exchange -> GetInfo -> Access Control -> where you should see only two entries (Outlook and Security) as follows
on run {input, parameters}
set vpn to do shell script "/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpn status | grep -q 'Connected' && echo 'connected' || echo 'disconnected'"
if (vpn is "connected") then
do shell script "/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpn disconnect"
say "VPN is disconnected!"
display dialog "VPN is disconnected!" with icon caution buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
else if (vpn is "disconnected") then
set username to do shell script "whoami"
set exchangepasskey to do shell script "/usr/bin/security find-generic-password -wl Exchange"
set vpnnames to {"alias-1", "alias-2", "alias-4", "alias-4"}
set vpnalias to {choose from list vpnnames}
set output to do shell script "printf '" & username & "\\n" & exchangepasskey & "\\ny' | /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpn -s connect " & vpnalias
if (output contains "state: Connected") then
say "VPN is connected successfully!"
display dialog "VPN is connected successfully!" with icon 1 buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
else
do shell script "ps -ef | grep 'cisco' | awk '{print $2};' | xargs kill -9 > /dev/null 2>&1"
say "Error connecting VPN, try again! I have killed the running instances"
display dialog "Error connecting VPN, try again!" with icon stop buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
end if
end if
return input
end runWe also killed the running instance of VPN, in case of any error happened so that when we run the app next time, it will not throw any error.
If you need it as an executable app, just contact me.
Just extract the zip and copy the VPN.app to Applications folder. Now you got the app installed.
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