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there is actually a Network-Manager module for vpnc but it's pretty unstable, and.. crap in my experience. if you want to wrap vpnc this much, then just use an expect script. as you will see from the documentation, vpnc will deliberatley not accept a password from a command line, it must be in a configuration file, or manually typed in. Expect can automate this manual entry exeternal to the program. I'd say that this was insecure as you would be holding a plaintext password in your script, but in reality it's better than a fixed config file which contains a plaintext string anyway!
Thanks for the reply. I will check out expect. I know it would be insecure, but I will be writing the password to a file, redirecting it and then delete it. I know it will still be accessible thru a raw read, but it's much better than a file that stays all the time.
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