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Advanced features of the Keeper Vault integration
Config Parameter Protection
The Keeper Vault can be utilized to protect and store configuration secrets that would normally be hard-coded into the
guacamole.properties or Docker Compose file.Simple Docker Install Method
If you installed Keeper Connection Manager using the Simple Docker Install method, configuration secrets are protected in the auto-generated Docker Compose file.
As root, edit the
/etc/kcm-setup/docker-compose.yml file.For each configuration secret that you want to protect, you can replace the entry with a direct lookup in the Keeper vault. A good example of this is replacing the hard-coded MySQL database password with a vault record.
BEFORE:
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MYSQL_HOSTNAME: "db"
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MYSQL_DATABASE: "guacamole_db"
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MYSQL_USERNAME: "guacamole_user"
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MYSQL_PASSWORD: "your_mysql_database_password"
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AFTER:
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MYSQL_HOSTNAME: "db"
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MYSQL_DATABASE: "guacamole_db"
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MYSQL_USERNAME: "guacamole_user"
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MYSQL_PASSWORD_KSM_SECRET: keeper://2ZlOFQAYi4DubJWBtSbRxw/field/password
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The token syntax is using Keeper Notation. The name of the parameter must follow the format of
*_KSM_SECRET. In this example, the MySQL database password is pulled directly from a Keeper record in the Shared Folder.
Configuration Storage in the Keeper Vault
The value of each
*_KSM_SECRET variable should be the Keeper notation of the secret that should be used to pull the necessary configuration value. For example, if SOME_VARIABLE_KSM_SECRET were set to valid Keeper notation, then the value of the Guacamole property normally associated with SOME_VARIABLE will be pulled from that secret in KSM.Once the file changes have been saved, update the containers:
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$ sudo ./kcm-setup.run upgrade
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Custom Docker Install Method
Edit your
docker-compose.yml file. For each configuration secret that you want to protect, you can replace the entry with a direct lookup in the Keeper vault. A good example of this is replacing the hard-coded MySQL database password with a vault record:
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MYSQL_HOSTNAME: "db"
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MYSQL_DATABASE: "guacamole_db"
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MYSQL_USERNAME: "guacamole_user"
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MYSQL_PASSWORD_KSM_SECRET: keeper://2ZlOFQAYi4DubJWBtSbRxw/field/password
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The token syntax is using Keeper Notation. In this example, the MySQL database password is pulled directly from a Keeper record in the Shared Folder as seen below:
Configuration Storage in the Keeper Vault
The value of each
*_KSM_SECRET variable should be the Keeper notation of the secret that should be used to pull the necessary configuration value. For example, if SOME_VARIABLE_KSM_SECRET were set to valid Keeper notation, then the value of the Guacamole property normally associated with SOME_VARIABLE will be pulled from that secret in KSM.Once the file changes have been saved, update the containers:
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sudo su
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docker-compose up -d
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Advanced Linux Install Method
To utilize Keeper Vault storage of Guacamole properties, create a file
guacamole.properties.ksm in the same location as your guacamole.properties file (/etc/guacamole/ by default).In the new file, add any properties that you would like to store in the Keeper vault, and set the value to a Keeper Notation query of the record field to use for that property. Note that the
guacamole.properties file must still contain the ksm-config property to identify the Keeper Secrets Manager configuration.Example Setup
guacamole.properties:
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ksm-config: eyJob3N0bm[...]1IzRTN2UVNTNkhsb0NZQW9nUmlPVlY5cjhvUT0ifQ==
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guacamole.properties.ksm:
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mysql-hostname: keeper://tqd1F9zHRKokN44Xso8PkQ/field/host[hostname]
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mysql-port: keeper://tqd1F9zHRKokN44Xso8PkQ/field/host[port]
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mysql-password: keeper://tqd1F9zHRKokN44Xso8PkQ/field/password
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The token syntax is using Keeper Notation. In this example, the MySQL database password is pulled directly from a Keeper record with the specified UID
tqd1F9zHRKokN44Xso8PkQ.Then, restart the guacamole process as you typically would.
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$ sudo systemctl restart guacamole
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The records referenced by token replacement must be in a shared folder that your Secrets Manager Application has access to.
Other configuration options
In docker installations, the parameter
ADDITIONAL_GUACAMOLE_PROPERTIES_KSM can be used to move parameters from the guacamole.properties file into guacamole.properties.ksm. Last modified 1mo ago