unable to connect - AD authenticated user on Linux.

[ebym]

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop
• openfortivpn 1.17.1 - ubuntu package.
• openFortiGUI 0.9.10 - .deb install.
• Normal AD user without sudo privileges. We don't want to enable sudo privileges for AD users.

Is there a way for user without sudo privilege to establish openfortivpn connection ?.

When trying to connect, the log show the following error.

sudo: a terminal is required to read the password; either use the -S option to read from standard input or configure an askpass helper

In GUI settings, SUDO -E Option is enabled and following line is added in /etc/sudoers.d/openfortigui

%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD:SETENV: /usr/bin/openfortigui --start-vpn *

Thanks,

[mrbaseman]

Currently, openfortivpn needs to run with root privileges for running pppd, for changing the routing and also for updating the name resolution.

Note that openfortigui is a different project than openfortivpn (although it uses openfortivpn in the background).