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Installing Fortinac Persistent Agent on Arch Linux (and derivatives)

This is a thrown together guide (mostly for myself xP) on how to install the fortinac-persistent-agent on an Arch-like system! There's probably a better way to do this, but I like this way as you can very explicitly see what is done to your system.

  1. Download RPM or DEB package provided by institution
  2. Extract it without preserving directory names (I used 7z e)
  3. Edit PersistentAgent.conf to point to home server (homeServer={SERVER_HERE}, ServerIP={SERVER_HERE})
  4. Move PersistentAgent.conf to /etc/xdg/com.bradfordnetworks/
  5. ./make_ca_bundle.sh > ca-bundle.crt
  6. Move ca-bundle.crt to /etc/ssl/certs/
  7. Copy getserial and getuuid to /opt/com.bradfordnetworks/PersistentAgent/
  8. Run bndaemon and bncsaui at the same time, bncsaui will most likely prompt for a username and password!
  9. Verify you can connect to websites other than your home server. If it works, feel free to kill bncsaui, otherwise wait a second and try again