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Map multiple credentials to RDP connection

It would be nice to be able to map multiple credentials to an RDP connection, and when connecting a dialog appears asking which credential to use.


Glad that's working for you at the moment. Maybe we can provide a better way in the future.


Regards,
Stefan

That's working thanks.  I can probably live with that for now.

To force a prompt, simply select "Specify a credential name" and put a "?" (without the double quotes) as name.


Let me know if this helps.


Regards,

Stefan


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The overrides look interesting. How can I make it prompt for credentials as an override?

The options I have in Common - Credentials:

- Do not user any credentials

- Use credentials from parent folder

- Specify username and password

- Use an existing credential

- Specify a credential name


Hi James,


I'm not sure if we can implement something like that in our current architecture. When you assign a credential to a connection you can choose between three different approaches:

- specify username and password (the actual username and password (encrypted) is stored in the connection)

- specify an existing credential (the ID of the credential is stored in the connection)

- specify a credential name (the name is stored in the connection which is useful for the filtering logic or for team sharing)


Assigning additional credentials to a connection is tricky because we kind of need to support all three ways for each additional credential you want to assign to the connection.


I can see three other features which may be helpful:

* Connect with Options -> Prompt for Credentials: this will invoke the credential picker and you can start typing the credential name to filter the list immediately and hit enter to connect using the selected credential

* Connect using Override: You define an override which either always prompts for credentials or uses a specific credential. You can then establish the connection using the override using the configured modifier key setting:

https://www.royalapps.com/blog/new-feature-overrides

* Connect using Templates: You create one or more templates with different credentials assigned and use the template to specify a different credential


Did you look at these options as well?


Regards,
Stefan


Hi Stefan,


Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately it's not a perfect solution for my scenario. 

I have one credential which is my user login for multiple servers, and individual admin credentials for each server.  There's no way I can prefix them so that my user credential, plus only the relevant admin credential are returned for each server.


Thanks

James

Hi James,


thanks for the feedback.


There's already a way you can do something like this:

1. Create multiple credentials which have all the same prefix, e.g. "[TEST ENVIRONMENT] - "

2. Use this prefix for multiple credentials and use a different ending. E.g: "[TEST ENVIRONMENT] - Admin" and "[TEST ENVIRONMENT] - User"

3. Configure your connections to "Specify a credential name" and only put the prefix in the name: [TEST ENVIRONMENT]


When you double-click/connect, Royal TS will find multiple credentials with that name and asks you which one to use.


Let me know if this helps.


Regards,
Stefan

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