GlobalProtect-openconnect

A GUI for GlobalProtect VPN, based on OpenConnect, supports the SSO authentication method. Inspired by gp-saml-gui.

Features

• Better Linux support
• Support both CLI and GUI
• Support both SSO and non-SSO authentication
• Support the FIDO2 authentication (e.g., YubiKey)
• Support authentication using default browser
• Support client certificate authentication
• Support multiple portals
• Support gateway selection
• Support connect gateway directly
• Support auto-connect on startup
• Support system tray icon

Usage

CLI

The CLI version is always free and open source in this repo. It has almost the same features as the GUI version.

Usage: gpclient [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

Commands:
  connect     Connect to a portal server
  disconnect  Disconnect from the server
  launch-gui  Launch the GUI
  help        Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
      --fix-openssl        Get around the OpenSSL `unsafe legacy renegotiation` error
      --ignore-tls-errors  Ignore the TLS errors
  -h, --help               Print help
  -V, --version            Print version

See 'gpclient help <command>' for more information on a specific command.

To use the external browser for authentication with the CLI version, you need to use the following command:

sudo -E gpclient connect --browser default <portal>

Or you can try the following command if the above command does not work:

gpauth <portal> --browser default 2>/dev/null | sudo gpclient connect <portal> --cookie-on-stdin

You can specify the browser with the --browser <browser> option, e.g., --browser firefox, --browser chrome, etc.

GUI

The GUI version is also available after you installed it. You can launch it from the application menu or run gpclient launch-gui in the terminal.

Note

The GUI version is partially open source. Its background service is open sourced in this repo as gpservice. The GUI part is a wrapper of the background service, which is not open sourced.

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu based distributions

Install from PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yuezk/globalprotect-openconnect
sudo apt-get install globalprotect-openconnect

Note

For Linux Mint, you might need to import the GPG key with: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7937C393082992E5D6E4A60453FC26B43838D761 if you encountered an error gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error.

Install from deb package

Download the latest deb package from releases page. Then install it with apt:

sudo apt install --fix-broken globalprotect-openconnect_*.deb

Arch Linux / Manjaro

Install from AUR

Install from AUR: globalprotect-openconnect-git

yay -S globalprotect-openconnect-git

Install from package

Download the latest package from releases page. Then install it with pacman:

sudo pacman -U globalprotect-openconnect-*.pkg.tar.zst

Fedora 38 and later / Fedora Rawhide

Install from COPR

The package is available on COPR for various RPM-based distributions. You can install it with the following commands:

sudo dnf copr enable yuezk/globalprotect-openconnect
sudo dnf install globalprotect-openconnect

openSUSE Leap 15.6 / openSUSE Tumbleweed

Install from OBS (openSUSE Build Service)

The package is also available on OBS for various RPM-based distributions. You can follow the instructions on this page to install it.

Other RPM-based distributions

Install from RPM package

Download the latest RPM package from releases page.

sudo rpm -i globalprotect-openconnect-*.rpm

Gentoo

It is available via guru and lamdness overlays.

sudo eselect repository enable guru
sudo emerge -r guru sync
sudo emerge -av net-vpn/globalprotect-openconnect

Other distributions

• Install openconnect >= 8.20, webkit2gtk, libsecret, libayatana-appindicator or libappindicator-gtk3.
• Download globalprotect-openconnect_${version}_${arch}.bin.tar.xz from releases page.
• Extract the tarball with tar -xJf globalprotect-openconnect_${version}_${arch}.bin.tar.xz.
• Run sudo make install to install the client.

Build from source

You can also build the client from source, steps are as follows:

Prerequisites

• Install Rust 1.80 or later
• Install Tauri dependencies: https://tauri.app/start/prerequisites/
• Install perl and jq
• Install openconnect >= 8.20 and libopenconnect-dev (or openconnect-devel on RPM-based distributions)
• Install pkexec, gnome-keyring (or pam_kwallet on KDE)
• Install nodejs and pnpm (optional only if you downloaded the source tarball from the release page and run with the BUILD_FE=0 flag, see below)

Build

1. Download the source code tarball from releases page. Choose globalprotect-openconnect-${version}.tar.gz.
2. Extract the tarball with tar -xzf globalprotect-openconnect-${version}.tar.gz.
3. Enter the source directory and run make build BUILD_FE=0 to build the client.
4. Run sudo make install to install the client. (Note, DESTDIR is not supported)

FAQ

1. How to deal with error Secure Storage not ready

   Try upgrade the client to 2.2.0 or later, which will use a file-based storage as a fallback.

   You need to install the gnome-keyring package, and restart the system (See #321, #316).

2. How to deal with error (gpauth:18869): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:33:37.566: cannot open display:

   If you encounter this error when using the CLI version, try to run the command with sudo -E (See #316).

About Trial

The CLI version is always free, while the GUI version is paid. There are two trial modes for the GUI version:

1. 10-day trial: You can use the GUI stable release for 10 days after the installation.
2. 14-day trial: Each beta release has a fresh trial period (at most 14 days) after released.

License

• crate gpapi: MIT
• crate openconnect: GPL-3.0
• crate common: GPL-3.0
• crate auth: GPL-3.0
• app gpservice: GPL-3.0
• app gpclient: GPL-3.0
• app gpauth: GPL-3.0
• app gpgui-helper: GPL-3.0