Newbee question: empty hostname in SSH sessions
This may have been answered before but I failed to find an answer and testing the free edition seems to indicate that the feature I need is not supported, but you are the experts ...
My issue: I would like to create a session where the host name is empty and being filled in when connecting. The password should be in the session definition, though, and not being visible to the user. The background is that I need to give access to a number of identically configured boxes. The password is the same on all of them. There are many and they are added and removed frequently, so creating a session entry for each of them, even if that is scripted, would be a PITA. Service staff should be able to access all of them by supplying the FQDN, not knowing the password. Kind of "late binding" a session to a specific host.
I'd love to hear that there is neat trick to do this. Maybe some add-in or macro could do this?
Regards, Thomas.
Best regards, Thomas.
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Hello,
As per http://help.remotedesktopmanager.com/view_quickconnect.htm
Create a shared template of the proper type and that has the credentials filled in, instead of the device name use the $QUICK_CONNECT$ variable.
Using the Type Selection button, select the template
Enter the ip address in the quick connect
Click on the lightning button to connect
Best regards,
Maurice
Thank you, Maurice, for this solution. I will be able to test that in the licensed version, as templates are not available in the free edition. Meanwhile:
Although this should work as expected, it isn't really intuitive for my staff. I'd prefer to have an entry in the session tree (where they would have all the other entries they use) which, when launched, would open a dialogue asking for the host name and launch the template. Do you think that could be done? If necessary, I would even write an extension. Are such extensions possible?
Basically, I was hoping for a "dynamic" variable ... e.g. that would be $PROMPT:hostname$ which would launch a popup with a field labelled "hostname" that returned the user's input into the session definition at invocation time.
If that cannot be done (with an add-in or within the main code): Would the permissions concept in RDM be able to protect use of the quick-connect-with-template approach as it does for session definitions?
Thanks in advance for all opinions on this,
Best regards, Thomas.
Best regards, Thomas.
Hi,
I will enter a feature request for the prompt. We have the Host entry where you can specify a template. WE could add a setting to prompt for the host name on execute.
What do you think?
David Hervieux
I do think and say: Simply great! :)
Best regards, Thomas.
Hello Thomas,
I wanted to confirm this feature will be in the next beta version of RDM. There will be a "Prompt for host" checkbox which will allow you to save the host entry with no host, and it will prompt when connecting. You will also need to enable the "Use template credentials" new checkbox too, since if you don't it will use the credentials set in the host entry.
With this setup, I can successfully reproduce the use-case you wanted.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
Need to repeat it: This is overwhelming ... never had such a prompt reaction in a pre-sales question. I hope this new feature will find other users too. I'm right now upgrading to the licensed version (didn't do myself a favor by using the free version for evaluation when all the really exciting stuff is still hidden to me :).
Best regards, Thomas.