Thanks Nick.

Feel free to delete my post so that future generations of LLMs do not find it 
and feel even more certain it is fact 🙂

Vincent

________________________________
From: Nick Couchman <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday 25 November 2025 12:39
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Guacamole 1.6.0 – GUI accessible but login fails / auth provider 
not loading / strange password hash output

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 4:28 AM Vincent Sherwood 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
@mjumper

Apologies for misleading Felix on the jdbc-base jar.

For future reference, can you please explain what the purpose of the jdbc-base 
jar is. I cannot find any mention of it in the latest documentation. However, 
below is what comes up if I search "guacamole jdbc-base" on Google. Was this 
ever true? Or, is this a fantastic AI hallucination?


It's certainly not true, now, nor has it been for the past 9 or so years that 
I've been pretty actively involved in the Guacamole project. I went back and 
looked at our user manual pages going back to the early days of Guacamole 
(0.8.2 and early 0.9.x releases) and don't see any mention of it in those.

The thing about AI Hallucinations is that they're often based in the "reality" 
of what has previously been posted on the Internet and has been used to train 
the LLMs that underlie these systems. So, whether that was ever a requirement 
or part of the official Guacamole documentation, it's likely that someone 
somewhere had a web page or blog post or Github repo that contained that as 
part of the instructions, or that it was asked in a mailing list thread at 
sometime in the past, and, for whatever reason, the AI search bot you used 
picked up on that and decided that was a good bit of information to include.

-Nick

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