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Refs #3713 With this, the deb package for the Linux GUI Client contains a build of the Linux CLI Client, at `/usr/bin/firezone-client-tunnel`. Future PRs can add IPC to the code. There is also a Windows stub, since Windows will eventually need a tunnel process and a CLI Client. In the future we might need to move or rename things, since the CLI Clients and tunnel binaries for both Linux and Windows may all share code or at least architecture. For now there is a slight duplication with this being built as both "Firezone Client Tunnnel" and "Firezone Linux Client"
linux-client
This crate houses the Firezone linux client.
Building
Assuming you have Rust installed, you can build the Linux client from a Linux host with:
cargo build --release --bin firezone-linux-client
You should then find a binary in target/release/firezone-linux-client.
The releases on Github are built with musl. To build this way, use:
rustup target add x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
sudo apt-get install musl-tools
cargo build --release --bin firezone-linux-client --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
Running
To run the Linux client:
- Generate a new Service account token from the "Actors -> Service Accounts" section of the admin portal and save it in your secrets manager. The Firezone Linux client requires a service account at this time.
- Ensure the
FIREZONE_TOKEN=<service_account_token>environment variable is set securely in your client's shell environment. The client requires this variable at startup. - Set
FIREZONE_IDto a unique string to identify this client in the portal, e.g.export FIREZONE_ID=$(uuidgen). The client requires this variable at startup. - Set
LOG_DIRto a suitable directory for writing logsexport LOG_DIR=/tmp/firezone-logs mkdir $LOG_DIR - Now, you can start the client with:
./firezone-linux-client
If you're running as an unprivileged user, you'll need the CAP_NET_ADMIN
capability to open /dev/net/tun. You can add this to the client binary with:
sudo setcap 'cap_net_admin+eip' /path/to/firezone-linux-client