Nick Couchman created GUACAMOLE-255:
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Summary: Support Ability to Auto-Start Connection
Key: GUACAMOLE-255
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-255
Project: Guacamole
Issue Type: Bug
Components: guacamole-client
Affects Versions: 0.9.11-incubating
Reporter: Nick Couchman
Priority: Minor
Currently the Guacamole client only automatically starts a connection when a
single connection is defined for a user/login. It would be useful to set a
connection to automatically start when a user logs in, even if multiple
connections are available. The user should still be able to disconnect and
return to the home screen, but there are certainly situations where it is
desirable to have an automatic connection happen at login.
As I see it there are two possible routes for implementing this:
- Set up a connection parameter or attribute for auto-starting and have the
client check connections at login time for the attribute and start them.
- Set up a user-specific field for a connection to auto-start, and store the
connection id (hash of datasource + id + type) in that field, and have the
client check for that property at login and locate/start the specified
connection.
My preference would be to do this at the user level, for the following reasons:
- You could then limit it to 1 auto-start per user, and avoid confusion of
having multiple connections available to a user marked for auto-start and
having to determine which one(s) you actually start.
- The user can be in control of whether or not a connection is automatically
started, and, if so, which one. There doesn't seem to be any security-relevant
implications for allowing the user to control this - the necessary checks
should still be in place to make sure the user is only starting a connection he
has access to, and not injecting something bad into the field, but whether or
not it starts automatically is more of an experience topic.
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