[strongSwan] cisco vpn client fails to connect to rw-server on Strongswan-v5.3.0 - Please Help

[Tobias Brunner]

Hi Rajiv,

> I need to use PSK based auth (with aggressive-mode) for many of the
> cisco clients being used in my organization...hence cannot avoid the >
use of PSK/Xauth/Aggressive combination...

You need to enable

charon.i_dont_care_about_security_and_use_aggressive_mode_psk

in strongswan.conf [1] to allow XAuth with PSKs in Aggressive Mode on a
server.

Regards,
Tobias

[1] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/StrongswanConf