On Fri Sep15'23 04:10:55PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> From: Ranjan Maitra <mlmai...@gmx.com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:10:55 -0500
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: OT but F38: Cisco SecureClient VPN suddenly stops connecting
>  since this morning
>
> On Fri Sep15'23 04:03:16PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > From: Ranjan Maitra <mlmai...@gmx.com>
> > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:03:16 -0500
> > To: Community Support for Fedora Users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Subject: OT but F38: Cisco SecureClient VPN suddenly stops connecting since
> >  this morning
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a strange problem, after last night's updates on F38. I am not 
> > actually sure that that is the cause, but I can no longer get Cisco's VPN 
> > to work. (I have to use Cisco's SecureClient because of the more "secure" 
> > 2-factor-authentication required to connect: before that, I used 
> > OpenConnect for a long time, and did not have a problem till I was forced 
> > to move to Cisco's version two years ago. I have till date not had any 
> > issue with Cisco either.)
> >
> > But that last statement in parenthesis only holds till last night. From 
> > this morning, I am unable to connect to Cisco's VPN. After logging in, and 
> > going through 2FA, all of which are successful, I get that:
> >
> > "Cisco Secure Client was not able to establish a connection to the 
> > specified secure gateway. Please try connecting again." <Close>
> >
> > which is on top of:
> >
> > "The certificate on the secure gateway is invalid. A VPN connection will 
> > not be established." <Close>
> >
> >
> > Things I have tried:
> >
> > 1) Trying on a different machine, with an up to date, F38, I have the same 
> > issue.
> >
> > 2) Using my wife's F37 machine (possibly not very up to date) and I am able 
> > to connect on VPN using the same account, so the issue seems to be with me 
> > and F38.
> >
> > 3) Back to my F38 machine, I looked at /var/log/report as the connection 
> > was happening, and got the following, and was wondering if it shows 
> > anything that is fixable.
> >
>
> After another reject: this time, the file is probably just over 60.001 KB 
> because of added header, etc information, I put this file at:
>
> https://paste.centos.org/view/6e50432b
>

Downgrading glibc (from 2.37-5 to 2.37-1) gets around the problem (in that I 
can log on). So, is this is a bug or an enhanced feature that Cisco or the 
people who control my certificate have not gotten around to?

Best wishes,
Ranjan
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