Thank you so much Nick, read only is not an option as the user is not allowed 
to enter credentials in remote system nor work on it. I will explore further 
solutions based on your useful recommendations for Windows GPO.

BR.
Jose

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De: Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>
Enviado: lunes, 18 de enero de 2021 17:38
Para: user@guacamole.apache.org <user@guacamole.apache.org>
Asunto: Re: Help to disable on-screen keyboard and input text

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:27 AM Jose Moreno Delgado 
<jose_tel...@msn.com<mailto:jose_tel...@msn.com>> wrote:
Hi, I noticed that on-screen keyboard is not a choice (I can't disable input 
methods for users from admin preferences) on emergent menu or preferences tab 
and it's very risky as an user is allowed to enter to guest machine when 
running RDP and a remote application directly from Guacamole as the task 
manager can be run pressing ctl+alt+tab and start applications like explorer to 
get full control of the machine. Can you help me to understand if there's an 
option to disable input methods apart from phisical user keyboard? no on-screen 
keyboard nor input text.


If you don't want the user to be able to input anything into the remote 
session, then you can make the connection read-only. This will disable all 
input into the connection. This option is available in the "Display" section of 
the connection parameters if you're using the JDBC module to create the 
connections, or by setting the "read-only" parameter if using the XML file or 
LDAP.

If you're just trying to prevent users from inputting certain key combinations 
in order to better secure the remote system, then Guacamole is not the correct 
place to try to do this - you need to properly secure the remote system using 
the tools available for that operating system. Trying to use Guacamole to 
disable certain things, like keyboard shortcuts, is just "security by 
obscurity," at best, and clever users will just find a way around it (like 
using the JavaScript console to trigger keypresses into the tunnel directly). 
Removing the on-screen keyboard is not a solution for this.

There are several tools for Windows - both built-in (GPO) and add-on - that 
allow you to lock down the applications that users are allowed to launch. I 
suggest digging into those.

-Nick

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