Fedora 37/38 Palo Alto GlobalProtect client alternative

Every since Fedora 33/34 Ive had issues with the official Palo Alto GP client, and it sucks, especially if you using SAML. I was using COPR dwmw2/openconnect in combo with networkmanager/NetworkManager 1.40 debug repo to use Gnome Openconnect GP vpn and it worked well! The reason for this was because with these versions of openconnect you had a “User-Agent” box in the gnome vpn setup. You need this for SAML.

Long story short, upgraded to Fedora 38 the other day. Because Gnome uses a newer GTK, openconnect is not working in vpn connection editor of NetworkManager. So I did try using a few versions of official GP Client but that failed as well.

I found our savior….

https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect

Easy to install and setup. Help the guy out by donating, he’ll save you some headache. Worth it.

Tags: fedora 38 openconnect, global protect client, globalprotect client, gp client, linux globalprotect client, linux palo alto