openfortivpn

openfortivpn is a client for PPP+SSL VPN tunnel services. It spawns a pppd process and operates the communication between the gateway and this process.

It is compatible with Fortinet VPNs.

Examples

• Simply connect to a VPN:

  openfortivpn vpn-gateway:8443 --username=foo
  

• Connect to a VPN using an authentication realm:

  openfortivpn vpn-gateway:8443 --username=foo --realm=bar
  

• Don't set IP routes and don't add VPN nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf:

  openfortivpn vpn-gateway:8443 -u foo -p bar --no-routes --no-dns
  

• Using a config file:

  openfortivpn
  

  With /etc/openfortivpn/config containing:

  host = vpn-gateway
  port = 8443
  username = foo
  password = bar
  set-dns = 0
  set-routes = 0
  # X509 certificate sha256 sum, trust only this one!
  trusted-cert = e46d4aff08ba6914e64daa85bc6112a422fa7ce16631bff0b592a28556f993db
  

Installing

openfortivpn is packaged for Fedora, Gentoo and NixOS under the package name openfortivpn.

For other distros, you'll need to build and install from source:

1. Install build dependencies.

   • Fedora: gcc automake autoconf openssl-devel
   • Ubuntu: automake autoconf libssl-dev
   • Debian: gcc automake autoconf libssl-dev
   • Arch Linux: automake autoconf openssl
   • Gentoo Linux: net-dialup/ppp

If You manage your kernel yourself, ensure to compile those modules:

CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=m

2. Build and install.

   aclocal && autoconf && automake --add-missing
   ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
   make
   sudo make install
   

Running as root?

openfortivpn needs elevated privileges at three steps during tunnel set up:

• when spawning a /usr/sbin/pppd process;
• when setting IP routes through VPN (when the tunnel is up);
• when adding nameservers to /etc/resolv.conf (when the tunnel is up).

For these reasons, you may need to use sudo openfortivpn. If you need it to be usable by non-sudoer users, you might consider adding an entry in /etc/sudoers.

For example: visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/openfortivpn

Cmnd_Alias  OPENFORTIVPN = /usr/bin/openfortivpn

%adm       ALL = (ALL) OPENFORTIVPN

Warning: Make sure only trusted users can run openfortivpn as root! As described in #54, a malicious user could use --ppp-plugin and --ppd-log options to divert the program's behaviour.

Contributing

Feel free to make pull requests!

C coding style should follow the Linux kernel Documentation/CodingStyle.