Campus VPN Setup for Mac OS

By: Richard Glaser, University of Utah - Revised: 2019-24-12

Warning - Historical Documentation

This documentation is only available for historal purposes and is NO LONGER SUPPORTED at the University of Utah.

DO NOT USE THIS DOCUMENTATION FOR CURRENTLY SUPPORTED UNIVERSITY OF UTAH VPN SERVICE

The University's VPN service NO LONGER SUPPORTS IPSec for VPN access.

Current - VPN Documentation

Cisco AnyConnect
You need to use the Cisco AnyConnect software to access the campus VPN service. All University student, staff and faculty can download the software from the University's Office of Software Licensing website or by opening a web browser to the website vpnaccess.utah.edu and login with your uNID, password and 2FA passcode.

For updated documentation, please see the following University of Utah IT web page:

https://uofu.service-now.com/it/?id=search&spa=1&q=vpn

Table of Contents

Documentation is available here:

Introduction

This is step-by-step manual setup of University of Utah Cisco VPN for Mac OS built-in VPN tool.

VPN Setup for Mac OS 10.6

Step 1: Open System Preferences => NetWork

 

Step 2:

Click on "+" to add an VPN connection.

Step 3:

Choose "VPN" as Interface.

VPN Type: Cisco IPSec.

Give a Service Name: University of Utah.

Step 4:

Server Address: vpnaccess.utah.edu

Account Name: your uNID ("u0123456",i.e.)

Don't put your password here.

Click on "Authentication Settings"

Step 5:

Please contact Campus Help Desk at 801-581-4000 option 1 for Shared Secret password.

Enter Group Name: UofUVPN

Step 6:

Click on Connect

Step 7:

Enter your password and click on OK.

You will see this message when you successfully conntected to campus VPN:

VPN Setup for Mac OS 10.7

Step 1: Open System Preferences => NetWork

 

Step 2: Click on "+" to add an VPN connection.

Step 3: