Make available to other users causes FortiClient to not work

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Hello Fedora community,

Today I experienced a weird problem. I was trying to set up FortiClient, but the connection failed with correct credentials. I checked the logs and an exception was printed exception: Backup routing table failed. Then I searched for a solution and as it turns out, disabling “Make available to other users” in my WLAN settings solved the problem.

Even though my VPN works now, I’m left curious:

  1. What does the “Make available to other users” WLAN setting do?
  2. How could turning on this setting negatively impact my VPN connection?

Thank you for helping!

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It means that when you create a new connection, like a VPN or join a Wi-Fi network, other users of the device will be able to use that connection too. When you install FortiClient it’s likely creating a service account and needs “Make available to other users” enabled so it can monitor those.

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That explains part 1. of the question, thanks. The weird thing is, that disabling, not enabling, this setting will make FortiClient work properly.