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firezone/rust/linux-client
Reactor Scram adea43e63b feat(gui-client): Tauri welcome screen (#4013)
Closes #3961 

No tests yet, might be tricky to test since it's all I/O. 
I cued it off the device ID being generated, so it will have a minor
merge conflict with #3920

```[tasklist]
### Before merging
- [ ] UI polish, or disable the welcome screen temporarily
```

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Co-authored-by: Jamil Bou Kheir <jamilbk@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-03-19 14:55:03 +00:00
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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Set FIREZONE_ID to a unique string to identify this client in the portal, e.g. export FIREZONE_ID=$(uuidgen). The client requires this variable at startup.
  4. Set LOG_DIR to a suitable directory for writing logs
    export LOG_DIR=/tmp/firezone-logs
    mkdir $LOG_DIR
    
  5. 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