This container provides possibility to connect remote VPN gateway with openfortivpn client. Container is working with one time password or so called token generated on fortitoken generator. We tested it with FortiToken 200. After container start the token is asked on command line and will be used for next authentication.

You can use two modes:

• forward mode
• direct mode
• rsync mode

In forward mode you can connect to remote server through jump server and provide forward ports for host OS.

In direct mode you can directly connect with remote server.

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Please take into consideration that you need some credentials before you can continue to work with this script and those are:

• vpn user account
• vpn pasword for this user
• gatway hostname or IP
• jump host account (if you plan to use forward mode)
• forti token generator device

For both modes you need to create image from which the container is created and set proper environment variables. So these steps are common for both modes:

Download this project from git

Build image with build script

   ./build.sh

Please be advised that we use multistage image (for build and for production). Build script automatically removes intermediate images from the system.

If you wish you can use directly our image from the the docker hub repository itbhat/openfortivpn-ssh

Just write:

    docker pull itbhat/openfortivpn-ssh:v1.9.0

where v1.9.0 is the version of respective openfortivpn client.

vpn_connect.sh script uses itbhat/openfortivpn-ssh:v1.9.0 as default image. If you prefer to use your own image name you can do it with -i switch vpn_connect.sh -i <image_name>

Forward mode forwards traffic from contianer through jump host to remote server where some service is listening. Let's assume we need to connect from our localhost to Oracle service on port 1521 on remote server. We presume you want oracle service on port 1519 on your localhost.

    ./vpn_connect.sh gw-username gw-password gw-host forward jump-host-user@jump-host remote-server 1519:1521

If you need more ports to be published please provide hostPort:forwardPort pair at the end of ./vpn_connect script like this:

    ./vpn_connect.sh gw-username gw-password gw-host forward jump-host-user@jump-host remote-server  [hostPort1:forwardPort1][hostPort2:forwardPort2] ...

You can check your container with command docker ps -a

Its name should be created from particular mode in use and remote server. direct-remote-server-name

If you want to provide your own host-name-IP mapping you can do so by providing file with -f switch vpn_connect.sh -f host_file. This is useful when you need to use host names for jump host or remote server and DNS resolution isn't available.

The syntax of this file is following host-name:IP where every line contains one hostname - IP mapping which is directly added in containers /etc/hosts file

Now you should be able to connect to an oracle service on your host localhost:1519

In case you need directly work with remote server through ssh you can use direct mode. In this mode prompt from remote server will be at your disposal after connect.

Just run this command

    ./vpn_connect.sh gw-username gw-password gw-host direct user@remote-server

After this command the tunnel is created, remote server authenticate you and you will be offered the prompt.

Rsync mode can be useful in case you need to copy something to/from remote server. Volumes are used in order to make your transfered data accessible for container.

To download something from server to the current directory please use:

  ./vpn_connect.sh gw-username gw-password gw-host rsync -avh user@remote-server:/bar $(pwd)/

Or otherwise to upload something to server from folder foo use:

  ./vpn_connect.sh gw-username gw-password gw-host rsync -avh  $(pwd)/foo user@remote-server:/

The usage is the same as with rsync command.