[X2Go-Dev] x2gobroker without auth

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Anders,

On Do 28 Feb 2013 14:52:31 CET Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Default behavior for x2gobroker and x2goclient in broker mode seems to be
> to first authenticate against the broker and then whatever terminal server
> the user ends up connecting to. This means the user ends up having to type
> in his/her username and password twice. Not a nice user experience. Either
> it shouldn't authenticate to get the available sessions or it should
> remember the username/password and try it when authenticating against the
> chosen server. Until the latter might be possible, I would like to turn off
> authentication to get the session information. It seems to me that this
> information is fairly safe to be publicly available. I have set
> check-credentials = false in x2gobroker.conf, but the client still prompts
> the user for a username/password. You can just hit enter twice at that
> dialog, but it still isn't an acceptable user experience. Is it possible to
> avoid this extra authentication currently, or would it mean changes to
> x2goclient?

Please use

   x2goclient --broker-noauth --broker-url=<URL>

For this to work, you have to set the check-credentials config option  
x2gobroker.conf to false.

Greets,
Mike


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