Opensource Fortinet client for Linux
Category
howto
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