Applescript for Cisco VPN autologin on OSX

README.md

This is a little AppleScript utility for mac that will allow you to login to Cisco vpn without manually entering your password over and over again.

1. Open Script Editor on your mac.
2. Paste in the file contents.
3. Update with your username, password, and vpn name.
4. Save to disk somewhere it won't get accidentally deleted. (~/Library/Scripts/cisco-vpn.scpt).
5. Add an alias to your environment to call the script whenever you want to login to vpn: alias vpnup='osascript ~/Library/Scripts/dmc-vpn.scpt'

cisco-vpn.scpt

set vpn_name to "'<your Cisco IPSec VPN config name from Settings->Network>'"
set user_name to "<username>"
set passwd to "<password>"

tell application "System Events"
	set rc to do shell script "scutil --nc status " & vpn_name
	if rc starts with "Disconnected" then
		do shell script "scutil --nc start " & vpn_name & " --user " & user_name
		delay 2
		keystroke passwd
		keystroke return
	end if
end tell