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Display default value of username in Login screen
Hi,
How can one display default value of username in login screen? The default
value in my case is returned by Javascript function.
Since in 1.1.0, the login fields are generated dynamically, i tried
displaying the default value in 0.9.6 where login screen was independent. I
wasnt successful in either versions.
In 0.9.6, I have already tried modifying LoginController.js
($scope.username="Joe"), but the default value does not reflect
Any help for 1.1.0 and 0.9.6 is appreciated.
Thanks,
Tushar Jain
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Re: Display default value of username in Login screen
Posted by Tushar Jain <tu...@hitachi.mgrmnet.com>.
Hi Nick,
Thanks for the suggestion. Will try to develop and a custom extension and
will reach out incase i run into any issues.
Thanks
Tushar Jain
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 8:49 PM Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 23:20 Tushar Jain <tu...@hitachi.mgrmnet.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> Thanks for the response.
>> We are trying to integrate smart card with the login page. Our users are
>> provided with a unique 16 digit card number which acts as their identity
>> and the username. Instead of them typing it out everytime, we want
>> guacamole to fetch it from the card. We have written a custom js to fetch
>> the card number(i.e the username) and it is working fine. But are not able
>> to display the card number in the username textfield. Please suggest how to
>> go about this.
>>
>
> Based on what you're trying to do - authenticate with smart cards, which
> is essentially certificate-based, or X509, authentication - I would suggest
> that you write a custom authentication extension that handles that
> mechanism, rather than trying to squeeze the method you're using into the
> existing username and password authentication. While this isn't identical
> to SSO authentication, looking at those modules may help you understand how
> they "replace" the standard username and password requirements with
> something else - in those cases a redirect to another page and processing
> of a SSO ticket, in your case the validation and parsing of a certificate
> stored on a smart card.
>
> Besides avoiding trying to hack the angularjs pages, it will allow you to
> make sure that the authentication happens securely by writing the module in
> such a way that the front end (angularjs) and back end (Java application)
> are "synchronized" in their conversation for authenticating the user.
>
> The manual has information on the extensions, and, honestly, just looking
> at the existing code will probably be as much help as anything. And, of
> course, we are happy to help out here, as well 😁.
>
> -Nick
>
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Re: Display default value of username in Login screen
Posted by Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>.
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 23:20 Tushar Jain <tu...@hitachi.mgrmnet.com>
wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Thanks for the response.
> We are trying to integrate smart card with the login page. Our users are
> provided with a unique 16 digit card number which acts as their identity
> and the username. Instead of them typing it out everytime, we want
> guacamole to fetch it from the card. We have written a custom js to fetch
> the card number(i.e the username) and it is working fine. But are not able
> to display the card number in the username textfield. Please suggest how to
> go about this.
>
Based on what you're trying to do - authenticate with smart cards, which is
essentially certificate-based, or X509, authentication - I would suggest
that you write a custom authentication extension that handles that
mechanism, rather than trying to squeeze the method you're using into the
existing username and password authentication. While this isn't identical
to SSO authentication, looking at those modules may help you understand how
they "replace" the standard username and password requirements with
something else - in those cases a redirect to another page and processing
of a SSO ticket, in your case the validation and parsing of a certificate
stored on a smart card.
Besides avoiding trying to hack the angularjs pages, it will allow you to
make sure that the authentication happens securely by writing the module in
such a way that the front end (angularjs) and back end (Java application)
are "synchronized" in their conversation for authenticating the user.
The manual has information on the extensions, and, honestly, just looking
at the existing code will probably be as much help as anything. And, of
course, we are happy to help out here, as well 😁.
-Nick
Re: Display default value of username in Login screen
Posted by Tushar Jain <tu...@hitachi.mgrmnet.com>.
Hi Nick,
Thanks for the response.
We are trying to integrate smart card with the login page. Our users are
provided with a unique 16 digit card number which acts as their identity
and the username. Instead of them typing it out everytime, we want
guacamole to fetch it from the card. We have written a custom js to fetch
the card number(i.e the username) and it is working fine. But are not able
to display the card number in the username textfield. Please suggest how to
go about this.
Thanks again
Tushar
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:57 PM Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 3:19 AM Tushar Jain <
> tushar.jain@hitachi.mgrmnet.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How can one display default value of username in login screen? The
>> default value in my case is returned by Javascript function.
>>
>> Since in 1.1.0, the login fields are generated dynamically, i tried
>> displaying the default value in 0.9.6 where login screen was independent. I
>> wasnt successful in either versions.
>>
>> In 0.9.6, I have already tried modifying LoginController.js
>> ($scope.username="Joe"), but the default value does not reflect
>>
>>
> What do you mean by "default value" for the username? The username field
> in a login box doesn't generally have a "default value," at least, not in
> my experience. What is it you're trying to accomplish by putting some
> value in there??
>
> -Nick
>
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Re: Display default value of username in Login screen
Posted by Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>.
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 3:19 AM Tushar Jain <tu...@hitachi.mgrmnet.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can one display default value of username in login screen? The default
> value in my case is returned by Javascript function.
>
> Since in 1.1.0, the login fields are generated dynamically, i tried
> displaying the default value in 0.9.6 where login screen was independent. I
> wasnt successful in either versions.
>
> In 0.9.6, I have already tried modifying LoginController.js
> ($scope.username="Joe"), but the default value does not reflect
>
>
What do you mean by "default value" for the username? The username field
in a login box doesn't generally have a "default value," at least, not in
my experience. What is it you're trying to accomplish by putting some
value in there??
-Nick