On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 12:23 PM Dmitry Katsubo <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear Guacamole users,
> Dear Nick,
>
> Sorry I decided to resurrect the 4-years old challenge. I have rebased my
> changes on the latest codebase. Not so many changes are required to allow
> the user authenticated via auth-header extension to be provided
> authentication information / connection settings from user-mapping.xml.
> Without the changes the settings are not picked up from user-mapping.xml.
>

Is there a specific reason that you cannot use the database? It's intended
for what you describe, intended for production use, and will work with
header auth.


> Please check my commit b0aa658
> <https://github.com/dmak/guacamole-client/commit/b0aa658043689b8ff37d18db49a75ac443b4cc12>.
> If that is OK, then I would provide few unit tests for it. Otherwise let me
> know what is missing, preferably in terms so that I can implement a test.
>

Looking at your commit, I see that one of the primary changes here is
changing the prototype and visibility of the getAuthorizedConfigurations()
function. This will break API and ABI compatibility, and I do not think we
should do this.

For the built-in support for user-mapping.xml to be able to accept the
authentication results of other installed extensions, it will need to be
modified to use the less-simple API and implement AuthenticationProvider
and UserContext (rather than use SimpleAuthenticationProvider).

With user-mapping.xml really being intended for testing only, and with
these changes aimed at allowing user-mapping.xml to be used in a more
complex configuration aimed at production use, I think these changes really
would need to be coupled with a move to a user-mapping variant that
*is* intended
for production (proper salted hashes for passwords instead of
intentionally-simplified-for-testing hashes, the ability to define a
user/connection association that requires auth from some other extension
and otherwise has no password, etc.).

- Mike

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