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Michael Jumper commented on GUACAMOLE-255:
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It would be useful to set a connection to automatically start when a user logs
in, even if multiple connections are available. ... there are certainly
situations where it is desirable to have an automatic connection happen at
login.
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Why would this be useful? Can you cite any examples of such situations?
> Support Ability to Auto-Start Connection
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>
> Key: GUACAMOLE-255
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-255
> Project: Guacamole
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: guacamole
> 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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