Description
User Account
Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced
with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. It aims to improve the
security of Microsoft Windows by limiting application software to
standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase
in privilege level. More information about this topic can be found on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control and on
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756883.aspx.
Even if you
are logged to your Vista machine as administrator , you don't have the
full rights : when logging in as a user in the Administrators group,
two separate tokens are assigned. The first token contains all
privileges typically awarded to an administrator, and the second is a
restricted token similar to what a standard user would receive. User
applications, including the Windows Shell, are then started with the
restricted token, resulting in a reduced privilege environment even
under an Administrator account
If UAC is turned on, it may prevent to install the ssl vpn client : the problem has been witnessed when using IE7 and logging to the ssl vpn portal of a Fortigate. Then if you try to install the ssl vpn client it will fail
You
can see if UAC is turned on or off by going to : Start > Control Panel >
User accounts > User Accounts > Turn User Account Control On of Off. Then you have an option called "Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer . If this option is checked, then UAC is On
Scope
- Windows Vista OS
- SSL VPN client
- All FortiOS
Solution
1st solution : Turn off UAC.
2nd solution : Launch IE7 a different way : right-click on the IE7 icon and select "Run as Administrator".
With any of these solutions, if you log in to the SSL VPN portal of your Fortigate, you will
be able to install the sslvpn client and establish the SSL tunnel
