openfortivpn-webview-electron

Application to perform the SAML single sing-on and easily retrieve the SVPNCOOKIE needed by openfortivpn.

The application will simply open the SAML page to let you sign in. As soon as the SVPNCOOKIE is set, the application will print it to stdout and exit.

Install

Linux

You can download the application as AppImage or tar.xz from the Releases page.

The AppImage is an executable that can be launched as is. The tar.xz contains the openfortivpn-webview executable.

macOS

If you have HomeBrew installed, you can install openfortivpn-webview with:

brew install --no-quarantine gm-vm/repo/openfortivpn-webview

You'll then be able to simply launch openfortivpn-webview from the terminal.

You can otherwise download the .dmg from the Releases page and install it. Since the application is not signed, macOS will not allow to run it unless you give it explicit permission from the system settings. You can achieve the same result by simply running the following command:

xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/openfortivpn-webview.app

The path to the openfortivpn-webview binary will be:

/Applications/openfortivpn-webview.app/Contents/MacOS/openfortivpn-webview

How to build

Install npm and run the following command:

npm install

This is enough to launch the application with:

npm start

You can also build a package for your system using electron-builder. For example, to build an AppImage and tar.xz for Linux, run:

./node_modules/.bin/electron-builder --linux AppImage tar.xz

This will generate a portable tar.xz in dist/. See the documentation of electron-builder for more info.