[gentoo-user] (Free|Open|Strong)Swan and Gentoo as a client

[Daniel Quinn]

Hello all, I’ve been asked to connect my Gentoo box to a StrongSwan VPN
and was offered a .mobileconfig file as means to connect. Unfortunately,
this appears to be a special-Apple-only-format and I can’t make heads or
tails of the contents. I understand that the server is Ubuntu running
StrongSwan using a shared secret, but that’s all I know at this point,
so my questions are:

  * Can I use NetworkManager (and as I understand it, LibreSwan) to
    connect?
      o If so, how do I translate the fields in the .mobileconfig to
        gateway, group name, user password, group password, user name,
        phase 1 algorithms, phase 2 algorithms, and domain? (The fields
        presented in GNOME’s NetworkManager dialogue for an OpenSwan VPN).
  * If I can’t (or shouldn’t?) use NetworkManager, what’s the right way
    to handle this? Is there a utility for handling .mobileconfig files
    in Linux?

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