[vpn-help] Shrew VPN client and RSA securID

[Matthew Grooms]

On 10/19/2010 6:45 AM, David Mrva wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to use your VPN client on a 64-bit Windows machine as an
> alternative to an (unsupported) Cisco client using a Software RSA
> securID code for authentication. After typing in my user name and
> copying the PIN from secured, I get an error in Shrew VPN client:
>
> ...
>
> bringing up tunnel ...
>
> user authentication error
>
> ...
>
> This situation looks similar to the ticket published online at:
> http://www.shrew.net/support/ticket/12 which indicates that issue will
> be resolved in version 2.2.
>
> Is this resolved in the current alpha 2.2? I tried Shrew VPN client
> version 2.1.6. How far is the 2.2 alpha from a stable release?
>

The client doesn't support two factor authentication yet. This is due to 
a deficiency in the Xauth implementation. It only supports username and 
password authentication.

-Matthew