On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 12:38 PM Ometto, D.L.A. (Dawa) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > > > I’m wondering whether thought has been given to the possibility of > prompting users for SFTP credentials when clicking the ‘upload files’ > button in the Guacamole Menu (in an RDP/VNC session). I understand this is > currently not possible, but would this be something for which a patch would > potentially be welcomed? Or if the idea has been considered and rejected in > the past, I’d be curious to know what the reasoning was! > > > > The use case I have in mind is one in which the RDP login is handled > through a different authentication mechanism than SSH, and SSH credentials > cannot be pre-configured (in our case because they involve time-based > passwords). But if anyone has any ideas on how to achieve this that do not > involve prompting the user for credentials, I’d be very interested as well. > > > I don't recall this having been discussed previously, but your use case makes sense. This would be a bit more work than just adding these variables as prompts, unfortunately - right now, the prompt for SSH username and password happens within the terminal, so we'd have to switch that to the more recently-added prompt infrastructure and then this could be added. Completely doable, just not requested or implemented at the moment. -Nick >
