[FEATURE REQUEST] Websites with Alternate credentials, plus ALTERNATE PROFILES?
[FEATURE REQUEST] Websites with Alternate credentials, plus ALTERNATE PROFILES?
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I couldn't see if or how this could be scripted as a before open event, so led me to think perhaps this would need a feature request.
I have started to consolidate my website entries using alternate credentials for elevation purposes, as I already use separate profiles that map up with credentials used which I mainly use to reduce the numbers of auth prompts, but after setting up my alternate creds I then thought, this is just going to use the same profile set on the entry isn't it which should have cookies etc for the default creds used. Granted it's not a massive issue in most cases although unless I'm using private sessions open with alternate credentials still uses the standard credentials, it would be handy if there was another profile field which was either always visible or only visible if the alternate credentials feature fields were not null?? This way I could then set the websites alternate profile to a preexisting profile previously used for the alternate credentials previously created with the pre consolidated entries??
Side note, I noticed in RDM an open with elevated credentials as well, but I haven't seen a credential entry or setting called Elevated, how is that used??
Thanks, RDM team in advance, looking forward to your thoughts...
JK
Devolutions Force Member (and Long time Devolutions Fan)
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Hello John,
The profile field in websites supports variables. If the thing that should distinguish your profiles is the username, you could use something like this for example:
In this case, depending on the username you choose, it would affect which profile is used. I'm not sure how you configure your entry to use alternate credentials, but let me know if this leads you to finding a good solution. Otherwise it would be helpful to know more about how you configured your entry.
For your other point regarding the "open with elevated credentials", if you go in the "alternate" section of your entry, you can configure a set of elevated credentials. This is a new feature in 2025.1. At the moment this is mainly used for that feature, but the SSH Terminal entry also supports elevating the user when already connected by performing a command using these credentials.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
Hubert,
Thanks for that, didn't think to use variables at the time doh! Def sounds promising ill see how I get on, as to the elevated creds question, I see it now, appears I got mixed up with RDM's option naming but somehow even though I were using Elevated Creds feature, open with alternate creds still worked?
Ill get back to you if I get stuck, pls mark this as resolved or dismissed as a feature request...
JK
Devolutions Force Member (and Long time Devolutions Fan)
Thanks for the feedback John, I'll mark the thread as "not planned", but if you have any additional issue making this work just let us know. It's possible you'll stumble on a part that's missing for your scenario and we'd be happy to either steer you in the right direction or work on an improvement to make it work.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
Seems this field doesn't like variables like entry names don't either, I tried but it just stored the Variable name and not it's called value??
JK
Devolutions Force Member (and Long time Devolutions Fan)
What you're describing seems normal to me, the variable in the profile field should only be resolved when you run the entry, not when saving it. Did you try it out and check if the profile was created with the correct name?
Regards,
Hubert Mireault
I did yeah and even after running the entry there isn't additional profiles created using the resolved variables?? Shouldn't it also create the profile entry in RDM as well as WebView2 cache (which I hadnt checked I will now just to be sure, however ideally it would be nice to see it in RDM to know it worked you know)
JK
Devolutions Force Member (and Long time Devolutions Fan)
No defiantly isn't working as with the variables in the profile name it doesn't even open, I'm assuming Webview2 doesn't like the profile name? Also nothing new is created in the cache paths??
Do you think a pre-open event script should be used to generate the string before open perhaps, Ill see if that works? Is there a variable for the Profile at all?
JK
Devolutions Force Member (and Long time Devolutions Fan)