

The applet will even prompt for your root password and appear to install the binary again. There will be a variety of trust warnings to click through. The system should now be ready to connect to the tunnel. Before trying to log into the tunnel, run a web search for java test applets and confirm that Firefox is generally successful at launching applets. This document's author tested using Oracle. One document on the web stated that Oracle's JRE is required, and a different document suggested that OpenJDK is acceptable. Therefore, CONFIG_TUN must be compiled as a module.Ĭhrome/Chromium no longer support the NPAPI required to launch java applets, which leaves Firefox as a required browser.įirefox must launch a java applet.

The snx binary attempts to fork the command modprobe tun and expects a successful exit code. In recent versions it will only work when run as intended, from the browser.

Note that while it is now possible to run snx directly at the command line, it will not result in a successful login.
