On 27/6/24 11:52, Christian Gelinek wrote:
Hi all,
I'm wondering what options I have to connect as a client to a SSL VPN by
Fortinet[0].
Their official client "for Linux" has instructions[1] for CentOS, Fedora
and Ubuntu, although I found a blog[2] documenting the use of the Ubuntu
package on Debian 12.
Then I also found (and installed) the package
`network-manager-fortisslvpn-gnome` which looked like it should do what
I need, but after configuring, it failed to connect to the VPN.
Has anyone got one working?
[0]: https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads#ztna
[1]: https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads/linux
[2]:
https://blog.williamdes.eu/Debian/tutorials/install-forticlient-on-debian-12-bookworm/
Answering my own question after searching more:
William Desportes, the blogger from[2] above, also mentioned a software
called OpenFortiGUI on his blog[3] which uses `openfortivpn`, a package
that seems to be in the Bookworm repository already [4].
Running as follows seems to connect fine:
sudo openfortivpn my.vpn.server.com:12345 -u myuser
[3]:
https://blog.williamdes.eu/Debian/tutorials/install-openfortigui-on-debian-12-bookworm/
[4]: https://packages.debian.org/stable/openfortivpn
