Juniper Pulse doesn't connect properly

Pavel Kogan pkogan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 01:08:05 PST 2015


Ping. Anyone have any ideas about what to try?

Thanks,
Pavel

On 14 December 2015 at 14:02, Pavel Kogan <pkogan at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, it makes no difference.
>
> Pavel
>
> On 14 December 2015 at 12:57, Krzysztof Kwiatkowski <kris at amongbytes.com> wrote:
>> Hmmm...
>>
>> Does it change anything if you add "--no-cert-check" to openconnect
>> options (just temporarily for testing).
>>
>> Kris
>>
>> On 14/12/15 12:14, Pavel Kogan wrote:
>>> I'm not hard-coding the DSID anywhere, so I assume the wrapper script
>>> gets a new one each time.
>>>
>>> It kicks me off after a few seconds. Actually, I can't really be
>>> certain it connects properly in the first place since I haven't been
>>> able to access anything behind the VPN in the interim.
>>>
>>> Yes, the host I'm connecting to does require host checking. I was
>>> using `juniper-vpn.py` because I wanted to avoid having to download
>>> and use a jar.
>>>
>>> Anyway, with the tncc-wrapper.py from the openconnect repo:
>>> ```
>>> $ sudo openconnect --juniper --useragent 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux) Firefox'
>>> --csd-wrapper=tncc-wrapper.py pulse.example.com
>>> [sudo] password for pavel:
>>> WARNING: Juniper Network Connect support is experimental.
>>> It will probably be superseded by Junos Pulse support.
>>> GET https://pulse.example.com/
>>> Attempting to connect to server 19X.XXX.XXX.XXX:443
>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>> Got HTTP response: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
>>> GET https://pulse.example.com/dana-na/auth/url_5/welcome.cgi
>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>> frmLogin
>>> username:pavel.kogan
>>> password:
>>> POST https://pulse.example.com/dana-na/auth/url_5/login.cgi
>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>> Got HTTP response: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved
>>> GET https://pulse.example.com/dana-na/auth/url_5/welcome.cgi?p=preauth&id=state_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&signinRealmId=3
>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>> socket opened
>>> GET https://pulse.example.com/dana-na/auth/url_5/welcome.cgi?p=preauth&id=state_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&signinRealmId=3
>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>> Got HTTP response: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved
>>> GET https://pulse.example.com/dana-na/auth/url_5/login.cgi?loginmode=mode_postAuth&postauth=state_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>> Got HTTP response: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved
>>> GET https://pulse.example.com/dana-na/auth/remediate.cgi?step=rolecheck&stateId=state_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&realmId=3&rolesremaining=0&realmsremaining=1
>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>> Unknown form ID 'frm'
>>> Dumping unknown HTML form:
>>> <form id="frm_142" name="frm" action="remediate.cgi">
>>>
>>>     <input id="action_31" type="hidden" name="action" value="">
>>>
>>>     <input id="signinId_2" type="hidden" name="signinId" value="">
>>>     <input id="realmId_10" type="hidden" name="realmId" value="3">
>>>     <input id="executedStep_2" type="hidden" name="executedStep"
>>> value="rolecheck">
>>>     <input id="stateId_8" type="hidden" name="stateId"
>>> value="state_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx">
>>>     <input id="p_16" type="hidden" name="p" value="">
>>>
>>>     <input id="showContinue_2" type="hidden" name="showContinue" value="0">
>>>     <input id="showRemedOption_2" type="hidden" name="showRemedOption"
>>> value="0">
>>>
>>>     <input id="hostcheckTS_2" type="hidden" name="hostcheckTS" value="">
>>>     <input id="totalseconds_2" type="hidden" name="totalseconds" value="">
>>>
>>>     <input id="executedAction_2" type="hidden" name="executedAction" value="">
>>> </form>Failed to obtain WebVPN cookie
>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>         at net.juniper.tnc.HttpNAR.HttpNAR.processCommands(HttpNAR.java:381)
>>>         at net.juniper.tnc.HttpNAR.HttpNAR.run(HttpNAR.java:261)
>>>         at net.juniper.tnc.NARPlatform.linux.LinuxHttpNAR.main(LinuxHttpNAR.java:52)
>>> ```
>>>
>>> Handling this unrecognised form was actually the change I had to make
>>> to `juniper-vpn.py`. It seems purely informational so I just had the
>>> script ignore it and carry on to tncc. All the fields are read-only
>>> (according to the dump I did from the python script) but maybe
>>> something does need to be done with it?
>>>
>>> On 14 December 2015 at 10:01, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 16:53 +0000, Pavel Kogan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ```
>>>>> $ sudo ./juniper-vpn.py --host pulse.example.com --user pavel.kogan
>>>>> --stdin DSID=%DSID% openconnect --juniper %HOST% --cookie-on-stdin
>>>>> --interface=tun0
>>>>> Password:
>>>>> WARNING: Juniper Network Connect support is experimental.
>>>>> It will probably be superseded by Junos Pulse support.
>>>>> Attempting to connect to server 19X.XXX.XXX.XXX:443
>>>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>>>> Connected tun0 as 10.XXX.XXX.XXX, using SSL
>>>>> ESP session established with server
>>>>> Server terminated connection (session expired)
>>>>> Unknown error; exiting.
>>>>> WARNING: Juniper Network Connect support is experimental.
>>>>> It will probably be superseded by Junos Pulse support.
>>>>> Attempting to connect to server 19X.XXX.XXX.XXX:443
>>>>> SSL negotiation with pulse.example.com
>>>>> Connected to HTTPS on pulse.example.com
>>>>> Got HTTP response: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
>>>>> Unexpected 302 result from server
>>>>> Creating SSL connection failed
>>>>> Waiting 10...
>>>>> ```
>>>>> The error then repeats until I Ctrl-C.
>>>>
>>>> That's odd. I assume you're using a fresh DSID cookie each time you
>>>> connect? And it then kicks you off almost immediately, telling you
>>>> 'session expired'? How long does it remain connected for?
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if this is a problem with tncc.py from the scripts you're
>>>> using to authenticate. In some modes the host checker script is
>>>> expected to keep running all the time you're connected to the VPN, but
>>>> ISTR that isn't implemented in Russ's tncc.py.
>>>>
>>>> Can you try running the *real* one? OpenConnect has support for
>>>> spawning it... do you actually need external scripts at all for
>>>> authentication, in fact? Anything we can do in an external python
>>>> script parsing the forms, we *should* be able to add to OpenConnect's
>>>> own parsing hacks.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> dwmw2
>>>>
>>>
>>



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