topic Re: How to saving password for Endpoint VPN on Desktop in SASE and Remote Access

How to saving password for Endpoint VPN on Desktop

MarcuzShinz — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:45:22 GMT

Hi Everyone

Currently I am using Checkpoint's VPN remote access but do not see any option for users to save passwords on the VPN Client.

Does anyone know any way to do this?

Re: How to saving password for Endpoint VPN on Desktop

PhoneBoy — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:45:55 GMT

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/RemoteAccessClients_forWindows_AdminGuide/Content/Topics-RA-VPN-for-Win/Saving-the-credentials-for-existing-VPN-site.htm

Having said that, using Certificate Auth (with the Cert stored in CAPI) is probably the better approach here.
https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk44073

Re: How to saving password for Endpoint VPN on Desktop

MarcuzShinz — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:17:44 GMT

Hi PhoneBoy,

Thanks for your response, so i tried with document your provide, however it not working, because i think this document just using for ATMs. We need saving password on windows, I enabled password caching in global but it the same not work.

So now, I use personal certificate for authentication, and we happen another issue when we configure IP office mode in ipassignment.conf file with one IP, it not work.

Re: How to saving password for Endpoint VPN on Desktop

PhoneBoy — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 19:09:32 GMT

The password caching only works while the connection is active, as described in sk44073.
Otherwise, you need to use certificates.
For the issue with ipassignment.conf, please create a new thread with the relevant details about what you've configured, the relevant versions, etc.

Re: How to saving password for Endpoint VPN on Desktop

freshwater84 — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:14:29 GMT

Hi PhoneBoy,

Ran over this old thread. We have active Certificate (CAPI) + username/password as a login method for Endpoint VPN.
Just having Certificate as the only method, I think is a little bit critical today, don't you think (in case something can be exported on MGMT side, whatever). I guess there is still no method to cache password, still on client, which survives the reboot?

Re: How to saving password for Endpoint VPN on Desktop

PhoneBoy — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:00:32 GMT

Correct, we don't cache the password on the client across reboots.