How to stablish a Fortinet-VPN connection on Ubuntu 16.04 (as client)?

Right now the official FortiClient available for Linux lacks VPN functionality.

I need to connect from an Ubuntu 16 system to the VPN of an employer and they only use FortiClient VPN...

What should I do, do I have options (or which would be the best one)?

Thanks a lot!

1 Answer

openfortivpn is an opensource Fortinet SSL VPN compatible client.

NetworkManager-fortisslvpn uses openfortivpn for its backend.

From Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic), NetworkManager-fortisslvpn can be installed with:

sudo apt install network-manager-fortisslvpn-gnome

I guess openfortivpn and NetworkManager-fortisslvpn would need to be built from sourcecode for Ubuntu 16.04.