The gui client cvpncg unnecessarily runs with root privileges which increases security risk while running it. There is no need for such behavior since root privileges are not needed to invoke vpn connection. The only part of the gui client that requires root priviledges is starting of cisco vpn service /etc/init.d/vpnclient_init (if it hasn'nt been started yet). The attached patches allows to...
2009-04-04 08:24:37 UTC in GUI for Cisco VPN client