Hi again
Thanks for the quick response
We have been trying our luck with yaml and the import option, this is a single
connection. Now the name and the groups are ok, and also the hostname, port,
Username and private key. The max connections, screen recording and sftp
settings remains untouched.
---
- name: test3connection
protocol: ssh
parameters:
hostname: 0.0.0.0
port: 22
username: guac
private-key: ${GUAC_PRIVATE_KEY}
max-connections: 2
max-connections-per-user: 2
passphrase: ""
parentIdentifier: ""
screen-recording:
recording-path: ${HISTORY_PATH}/${HISTORY_UUID}
recording-include-key-events: true
create-recording-path: true
SFTP:
enable-sftp: true
sftp-disable-upload: true
sftp-disable-download: false
group: ROOT/testgr3/Child Group 11
I guess we were hoping for a quick solution, but we will look into the other
options you mentioned.
Thanks in advance.
regards
Jesper
From: Nick Couchman <[email protected]>
Sent: 10. november 2025 16:51
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: connection automation
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM Jesper Vingum Mortensen
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Hi
Using guacamole 1.6.0, and I must say that we are very happy with it.
I am trying to automate connection creation, because we have a lot of
connections and they seem to multiply over time. So far I have had some luck
using the “import” feature and a yaml file, this works for creating the
connection but not groups. And there are various parameters that I can´t seem
to set. Like “Automatically create recording path:” in Screen recording and
enable SFTP. I was kinda hoping that someone had some experience doing this?
Yes, the Connection Import functionality only supports connections, not
connection groups. If the groups already exist, however, you should be able to
specify the parent id of that group in the import process, and I believe that
will work to organize them.
For the parameters, you should be able to import any of the parameters with the
import process, including recording parameters, SFTP, etc. You'll just need to
make sure you're using the correct parameters and formatting the file
correctly. Or it's possible there's a bug in the import process, but anything
should be usable. Can you post an example YAML file (sanitized of any sensitive
information), and then what you're seeing after you import it?
Beyond that import method, there are a handful of options that might be useful
for you:
* The entire web application is based on a REST API, so you could automate it
using that REST API and the connection creation endpoints. Unfortunately that's
not terribly well documented...err...at all...so you basically have to use the
Browser Developer Console to see the methods used when you create a connection,
and then go turn those into a program or script that utilizes those endpoints
to create the connections.
* If you're using the JDBC back-end, which you are if you're using the Import
feature :-), then you can also manipulate the database directly. There is some
documentation on this:
https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/jdbc-auth-schema.html.
* There's also a JSON extension which allows you to call a Guacamole endpoint
from another application and have the connections, groups, etc., created
dynamically and have the user logged in to the application. This allows for
Guacamole to be integrated as a part of another application without having to
persistently store information that might be constantly changing. This is
documented, here: https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/json-auth.html.
-Nick
