SFTP Prompt for Credentials

["Ometto, D.L.A. (Dawa)" <d....@uu.nl.INVALID>]

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.

Thanks in advance, and all best,
Dawa

Re: SFTP Prompt for Credentials

[Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 12:21 PM Ometto, D.L.A. (Dawa)
<d....@uu.nl.invalid> wrote:

> On 21/12/2023, 16:31, "Nick Couchman" vnick@apache.org wrote:
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> > 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.
>
>
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> Thanks for the reply! I might be interested in picking this up in the new
> year, but anyway I would like to file a request for it as a feature –
> what’s the proper channel for this, should I simply open an issue on GitHub
> or on JIRA, say? Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
>

For feature requests, you can go to our Jira site:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE

You'll need to request an account (link on the top of the page) and then
you can enter the request. When you do the account request, just make sure
to fill in some of the details of this conversation so we know where the
account request is coming from and can approve it.

-Nick

>

Re: SFTP Prompt for Credentials

["Ometto, D.L.A. (Dawa)" <d....@uu.nl.INVALID>]

On 21/12/2023, 16:31, "Nick Couchman" vnick@apache.org<ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the reply! I might be interested in picking this up in the new year, but anyway I would like to file a request for it as a feature – what’s the proper channel for this, should I simply open an issue on GitHub or on JIRA, say? Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

All best,
Dawa

Re: SFTP Prompt for Credentials

[Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 12:38 PM Ometto, D.L.A. (Dawa)
<d....@uu.nl.invalid> 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

>