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Out of interest, we have SAML and OpenID Connect. How do you manage passing the SSO to Windows after displaying the web portal. I couldn't see anything in the Guacomole pages, but Citrix manages this. Where you sign in to the web portal, click a desktop, and don't have to login. Do you get a kerberos ticket, do you have something running on the Windows host or how?

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The users don't log in with their own identities - we don't have developer accounts on production hosts. They log into service accounts: credentials are retrieved from a vault once the user has been authorized, after which the web application dynamically configures the RDP host/account/credential.

From his comment it seems like they use a service account and thus hardcoded username + password on the Guacamole side rather than doing what Citrix does

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