Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

Configuring Guacamole for SSH and RDP access

Guacamole's default configuration directory is /etc/guacamole. It requires a file called guacamole.properties to be properly created to function. There are some other directories that we might want to place within the configuration directory, but they won't be needed for the current setup.

1. The Guacamole properties file should contain information about the address of the guacamole proxy:

# Hostname and port of guacamole proxy
guacd-hostname: localhost
guacd-port:     4822

2. In addition to this, we also need another file called user-mapping.xml in the same directory, containing a list of usernames and passwords that Guacamole will authenticate with:

<user-mapping> <authorize username="USERNAME" password="PASSWORD"> ...