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Bug#589600: ITP: f5vpn-login -- F5 VPN command-line client



On 12181 March 1977, Taku YASUI wrote:
>   Description     : F5 VPN command-line client

>  This software allows you to connect to an F5 VPN server without using
>  their browser plugin. It also has the advantage of setting up DNS
>  properly on OSX systems, which the official client doesn't do. (but
>  maybe they will in the future, now that they can copy the method I use).

>  It is not supported or affiliated with F5 in any way. I actually find it
>  rather sad the client they provide is so terribly poor that I had to
>  write this in order to get reliable access to my company's VPN.

>  This software does not require any software from F5 to be installed on
>  the client. The only requirement is Python 2.3.5 or later. It works on
>  at least Linux and OSX systems, but porting to any similar OS should be
>  trivial.  Porting to Windows, on the other hand, is probably not
>  reasonably possible.

This description is really poor, please adjust it. All the rants and
complains about the original f5 software are entirely wrong inside a
Debian package description. And an advantage on OSX is also very much
uninteresting here.

-- 
bye, Joerg
It seems to me that the account creation step could be fully automated:
checking the box "approved by DAM" could trigger an insert into the LDAP
database thereby creating the account.
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