A question I’ve been exploring is “how can we make these better / slicker / more secure?”. One thing I haven’t ever explored though is the use of certificates as part of the authentication process - deferring instead to the more traditional approach of using RADIUS for Active Directory integration, or third-party MFA support where there’s more than a passing requirement.Ĭlient VPN’s seems to have had a bit of a resurgence for a number of the organisations I work with in recent months, but given our Azure focus and the limitations associated with native Microsoft options in the cloud (lack of RRAS support, administrative complexity of P2S VPN’s etc.) we’ve found ourselves exploring and building solutions based on more traditional appliance based VPN solutions in Azure - Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto etc. It’s not quite the post I had planned, but since I’ve not quite achieved what I set out to (yet, more on that in a future post) and this was a useful by-product along the way, it seemed silly to waste the opportunity of writing up some findings that will hopefully prove useful to someone down the line…įortinet’s FortiClient based SSL-VPN implementation is one of the best and simplest out there and has been a fairly staple feature on pretty much every FortiGate I’ve deployed since 2009 or so. Also, it appears once this was done, a "save_password" element was added to the conf file, if exported again: connections > connection > ui section of the *.This is a slightly left-field post on the back of some testing / tinkering I’ve been involved in over the last week or so.
#Fortigate vpn client password#
Indicate the File and password (used to encrypt the *.conf file in the 'Export conf file' section).Click the padlock icon on the upper-right.
7 At the bottom of the file, in the user_configuration section, set show_remember_password key to 1:.This password is used simply to encrypt sensitive info for exporting/importing the *.conf file. Indicate a password for encrypting the *.conf file.Ensure the "Include user settings" is checked.In the file dialog box, indicate the file to output your *.conf.Click the gear icon (second icon) on the upper-right.add a save_password node to the ui section in your *.conf file.modify the user configuration section within the *.conf" file or.You can also re-use the config file when deploying to multiple hosts or re-installing.įor FortiClient VPN 6.4.3, seems like you have to There are various useful settings you might want to tweak. To clear it, edit the connection's settings and switch auth back to 'Prompt on login'.ĮDIT: As posted by Igor half a year later, a much more structured solution is to export the config file, alter it and then load it back in. Then if 'save password' is checked during login, the client will encrypt the password into the DATA1 and DATA2 values, and even though the server may hide the checkboxes again, the saved password will stay. HLKM\Software\Wow6432Node\Fortinet\Forticlient\sslvpn\\show_remember_password = 1
You can currently override this by tampering with the show_* options in the registry specifically,
#Fortigate vpn client how to#
(CNTl-C) terminal and then search through outputįile above was most obvious sounding one and quick look showed a good outlook.Īccording to the official documentation, " How to activate Save Password, Auto Connect, and Always Up in FortiClient", the availability of this option (and some others) is decided by the server administrator, using the config setting set save-password enable. In forticlient console quickly add a new vpn In terminal run "sudo opensnoop | grep Forti"
#Fortigate vpn client manual#
You could also use the same thing to save some vpn settings for auto rollout of machines by script (instead of manual setup for each user)įor those interested, the way I found it was simple: Save and then simply open again and the checkboxes to save will be available now, unlike before. To change the following two zeroes to ones. sudo vim /Library/Application\ Support/Fortinet/FortiClient/conf/vpn.plist I had the same issue in OSX (Sierra) using Forticlient 5.4.1.I ended up editing the following file:
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