---
title: Forticlient VPN
description: Guide on setting up a headless FortiVPN client
published: true
date: 2022-04-30T20:10:28.072Z
tags: forti, vpn
editor: markdown
dateCreated: 2021-09-02T08:14:33.492Z
---

# Forticlient VPN
Connecting to Forti VPNs on Linux is apparently quite easy thanks to [openfortivpn](https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn).

 To install, run `emerge net-vpn/openfortivpn` on Gentoo, and follow the docs for everything else.

## Set up a config:

Create `/etc/openfortivpn/[config]` and fill it according to this pattern:
```
host = 185.163.148.98 
port = 10443 
username = matanh 
```
Replace whatever you need, obviously - that one's out of date.
## Accept certificate

Now, try connecting with `openfortivpn -c /etc/openfortivpn/[config]`, which will complain about a missing trusted-cert and spit out the line to add to the config - ex:
```
trusted-cert = 32ad6666ce6ee21f9353ca24392fa3a5db179b00540616965aa8767cd8a2583c
```
Add this to the config and log on again. Viola!