Delete excess VPN connection from Internet Connect

Jun 01, '04 09:21:00AM

Contributed by: chienr

OS X allows you to create VPN connections -- as many as you like -- through Internet Connect, but it won't let you remove unused ones. To do this, you need to manually erase them from /Library -> Preferences -> SystemConfiguration -> preferences.plist by either editing that file with vi or Property List Editor (the latter is much safer and faster, but requires the Developer Tools / XCode package to be installed). Say you want to get rid of VPN (PPTP) 2:

  1. Open preferences.plist in Property List Editor
  2. Expand Root, then expand NetworkServices
  3. Expand each of the hexidecimal profiles and try to find your target (e.g. VPN (PPTP) 2)
  4. Once it is identified, delete the parent hex profile
  5. Save it (make sure to have a backup copy of the original file just in case)
This has been tested on 10.3.4. I used the Property List Editor from my 10.2.8 without any problems. Note that in Jaguar (10.2.x), the plist file is under /private -> var -> db -> SystemConfiguration -> preferences.xml.

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