Hello,
I would like to suggest a workflow improvement for Remote Desktop Manager (RDM) for Windows (currently on 2026.3.15.0).
Use case
Many of my sessions are opened with different accounts depending on the task, e.g. a standard user for daily work, an administrator account for maintenance, or a service account for testing. Today I have to right-click the session, go to Open with parameters → Open (select credentials)… and then search for the credential entry in the selection dialog, even though that credential entry is already visible in the navigation pane right next to the session.
Requested feature
Drag a credential entry (Username/Password, Password List, …) in the navigation pane and drop it onto a session entry. RDM then opens that session and authenticates with the dropped credentials, exactly as Open (select credentials)… does today. The credentials configured on the session itself stay unchanged; the dropped credentials apply to this one connection only.
Suggestions for the details:
All session types that use credentials (RDP, SSH, web, …) should support it.
Optional confirmation ("Open Server01 with Admin account?"), switchable in the settings, to prevent accidental connections.
Password List entries: after the drop, show the list of username/password pairs so I can pick one.
Existing behaviour stays: dropping onto a folder still moves the entry as it does today; only a drop onto a session entry opens it.
Optional modifier key, e.g. Ctrl + drop, to link the credential entry permanently to the session instead of opening it once.
Permissions and logging work as with Open (select credentials)… : only credentials the user is allowed to use, and the connection is recorded in the activity log.
Why
A big time saver: I open sessions with a different account than the configured one many times a day. Each time costs a context menu, a submenu and a search in the selection dialog. With drag and drop it is a single gesture, and over a working day this adds up to a considerable amount of saved time.
Drag and drop is intuitive: "use this account on that server".
In large vaults with many credential entries, it saves searching in the selection dialog.
Related
A similar idea was raised earlier in this forum: https://forum.devolutions.net/topics/27575/open-session--select-credential-entry
Thank you for considering it.