On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 4:55 PM Howard Lander <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nick > > Thanks so much for the quick reply. > > Funny thing is that I tried deleting the password attribute from the > user_mapping file but that didn't work either.. Oh well. I could actually > live with no security on the connection, since this is running within a > secure environment. If I store the connections in the JDBC module, would I > still use the header-auth module? It turns out that this would be pretty > convenient for us since the authentication system we are using already can > easily send the REMOTE_USER header. At first glance I don't quite see how > to use the JDBC module, but I will look into it some more. > > Yes, if you store connections in the JDBC module you can still use the Header module for authentication. The authentication system "layers" the users such that, if username matches, it will apply permissions across the modules. http://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/jdbc-auth.html http://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/ldap-auth.html#ldap-and-database That second one covers using LDAP and JDBC, but the concept is the same for any of the modules + JDBC. -Nick >
