On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 5:01 AM Julien Lejeune <julien.leje...@actia.be> wrote:
> Hi all! > > > > In my Guacamole instance, a user can modify parameters related to the > display within the guacamole’s menu (CTRL + ALT + SHIFT). > > > > Currently, those parameters are standardized in our company, but the > ability to change them is useful if a user has specific needs. > > > > One of my users wonders why those settings can’t be saved. > > > > On one side, as the Guacamole administrator, I like that a user cannot > permanently change those settings. For example, we set a specific > background color for critical connections. I am not sure I want a user to > fall back to the default background color and « forget » it is a critical > connection. > > > > On the other side, I get that it is useful for a user to be able to change > those parameters and make those changes permanent. > > > > I wonder what are your thoughts about it. > > Would it be nice to allow users to save, thus bypassing default settings, > or is it better the way it is? > > > A couple of thoughts: 1. As access control is implemented today, there's no way to grant a user permissions to (permanently) change something like the color scheme without also granting them permissions to change anything and everything else about the connection (hostname, port, username, password, etc.). Unless you trust your users to also be administrators of the connections in question, there's not really any way to do this. 2. There's also no way currently for users to have connection parameters that are specific to them for a given connection. This means that, even if the item above were resolved/implemented in a way that allowed users to change a limited set of parameters on a permanent basis, that would change those parameters for all users of the connection - not just that one user. You'd probably end up with a fight amongst users who have different preferences and want their preference to be the default/permanent one, and so they will be constantly updating the connection and complaining about the other people who change it :-). -Nick >
