Getting a bogus expired message from the VPN only CLI Forticlient 7.0.7 on Ubuntu 18, 20

[Serguei]

After downloading a VPN only deb file forticlient_vpn_7.0.7.0246_amd64.deb manually from

https://www.fortinet.com/support/product-downloads#vpn with a fresh install I am trying to run fortivpn CLI, I get:

$ /opt/forticlient/fortivpn
FortiClient SSLVPN is unavailable: FortiClient VPN trial has expired.
Please contact your administrator or connect to EMS for license activation.

(Basically, the same as with the full client from the Fortinet repo.)

This VPN-only isn't supposed to be the EMS thing, is it? Or a wrong binary is provided by accident?

What I am understanding is wrong?

This behaved identically on Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04.

All I am looking for a working MFA-enabled non-EMS FortiClient 7.0.7, ideally CLI, to run cleanly and properly on Linux.

[Anthony_E]

Hello Serguei,

Thank you for using the Community Forum.

I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible.

Regards,

[Anthony_E]

Hello Serguei,

We are still looking for someone to help you.

We will come back to you ASAP.

Regards

[Anthony_E]

Hello Serguei,

I m sharing with you this guide:

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/forticlient/7.0.7/administration-guide/41299/forticlient-linux-cl...

Could you please indicate us if it is helping?

Regards,