Friday, 15 August 2008

Uninstall CISCO VPN client OSX

If you have the joy of running the Cisco VPN client on your Mac, you will rejoice the day you can remove it. Actually that could be unfair.

Whatever. There is no uninstaller, so you need to use to following command from the terminal:

sudo /usr/local/bin/vpn_uninstall

You are prompted to remove all profiles and certificates.

If you answer yes, all binaries, startup scripts, certificates, profiles, and any directories that were created during the installation process are removed.

If you answer no, all binaries and startup scripts are removed, but certificates, profiles, and the vpnclient.ini file remain.
Posted by at 05:21
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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous8 November 2008 at 15:29

    Thank You, Thank You, Thank you! I thought I'd never get this piece of junk software off my system. Continual freezes and lockups especially on shutdown or boot.

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  2. Steve Mansfield9 November 2008 at 01:03

    Yes, the joy of being rid of it :-)

    Glad it helped!

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  3. Richard20 March 2009 at 09:32

    Thanks from me too!! I am SO glad to be properly rid of this software :-)

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  4. gaijintendo7 April 2009 at 13:25

    Thanks from me too - that IS a gem

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  5. Anonymous23 June 2009 at 02:24

    In case you need cisco vpn functionality, there is a MacPort (former DarwinPorts) called vpnc which does pretty much the same, sans freezes.

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  6. Anonymous23 June 2009 at 02:53

    Its not your lucky day if you _need_ Cisco VPN ;)

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  7. wls28 June 2009 at 11:00

    This worked perfectly. Thank you.

    I no longer have kernel panics when I boot OS X in verbose mode.

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  8. Deutscher OSX86 BLOG11 September 2009 at 00:57

    In single-user mode the script said "Sorry, you need superuser access to run this script. As root, with sudo and su. But its good to now, how you can uninstall this freezing software. Thanks

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  9. Nick4 October 2009 at 09:29

    Ahh, thank you. Sad that I found it easier and more reliable to run this in a Windows XP VM.

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  10. EmmEff7 November 2009 at 20:00

    I had no problems running this software, but our IT decided to switch to Juniper Network Connect... still saw references to Cisco VPN drivers in the system logs, so thanks for allowing me to finally rid my system of unneeded software.

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  11. Anonymous8 April 2010 at 08:03

    Thank you!!

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  12. Mr. Pool25 July 2011 at 20:03

    God how I long for the day when I can get this off my system. For now I need it to log into client sites...

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