VPN: Log In to Faculty/Staff VPN Client
- Margaret Winward
To help protect remote connections to sensitive resources, a Faculty/Staff only VPN as been created which requires multi-factor authentication with DUO. This helps protect the resource even if someone has their password stolen.
Instructions
Connect using the Cisco AnyConnect client:
The Cisco AnyConnect client needs to be installed on the device being used to connect. If you need to install that, please see this knowledge base article first.
Open the Cisco AnyConnect client.
Type sslvpn.usu.edu/staff in the address box.
Select Connect
It will prompt for your username and two passwords:
The Username is your A-Number.
The Password is your USU strong password.
For the Second Password, if you use DUO push to your device/phone, put the word “push” (without quotes). This will send the DUO authentication push to your phone for confirmation.
Alternatively, You can put in the number generated from a DUO fob, or the code from the DUO app on your phone, into the Second Password field.Please note: Duo bypass codes or passcodes generated from http://MyID.usu.edu are not allowed on this system and you are required to enable your device's screen lock (pin, fingerprint, password, etc.) if authenticating via the duo app on a mobile device.
If you haven't already, please set your password and/or set up duo.
The VPN endpoint is 'sslvpn.usu.edu/staff'. If you omit '/staff', you will not gain any elevated privileges (ie. you will be connected to the normal campus VPN).
USU Service Now will list knowledge base articles for how to configure AnyConnect for most device types.
This VPN connection currently allocates an address in the 129.123.119.0/24 subnet.
Typical uses could include:
remote access to systems for management purposes
remote interactive access to database servers
Identity based access to a specific resource within the SER datacenter
Note that student employees are part of the staff group and can use this VPN as needed.
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Verified: Apr 27, 2022