Opensource Fortinet client for Linux

There is a services called Fortinet, it is usually been used inside corporate networks and projects who needs private VPN for employees

Problem

• There is now good GUI client for Linux, official client is trial based and will stop work after trial period.
• Official terminal based client is no good too, very unusable
• Cannot see connection status

Solution

Here is a project called OpenfortGUI

• QT based
• Terminal based openfortvpn

Compile from source code

git clone https://github.com/theinvisible/openfortigui

git submodule init && git submodule update

cd openfortigui

git submodule init && git submodule update

qmake openfortigui-project.pro -spec linux-g++ CONFIG+=debug CONFIG+=qml_debug && /usr/bin/make -j4

sudo dnf install qt5-qtbase-devel openssl-devel qtkeychain-qt5-devel -y

qmake && make -j4

/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qmake && make -j4

Install

sudo cp openfortigui/app-entry/openfortigui.png /usr/share/pixmaps

sudo cp openfortigui/app-entry/openfortigui.desktop /usr/share/applications

sudo cp openfortigui/openfortigui /usr/bin/

Usage

sudo openfortigui

References

• https://github.com/theinvisible/openfortigui
• https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn
• https://hadler.me/linux/openfortigui/