centos_guacamole

CentOS 7, Guacamole: clientless remote desktop gateway

CentOS 7, Guacamole: clientless remote desktop gateway

The packaged version in EPEL is 0.8.4. A fairly (a few years) old version. So this page uses the most recent files from: Apache Guacamole.

Upgrade

Check the release notes for addtional actions, like upgrading the database schema.

Upgrade server

Download the source code and SHA sums from: http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/releases/

Verify the source code:

sha256sum -c *.sha
guacamole-client-0.9.11-incubating.tar.gz: OK
guacamole-server-0.9.11-incubating.tar.gz: OK

Compile the server:

tar zxf guacamole-server-0.9.11-incubating.tar.gz
cd guacamole-server-0.9.11-incubating/

autoreconf -fi
# No SystemD services yet...
./configure --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d --prefix=/opt/guacamole

make
make install # as root

Stop guacd:
```
service guacd stop
```

Edit /etc/init.d/guacd:

change: pidfile="/var/run/$prog.pid"
to:     pidfile="/opt/guacamole/run/$prog.pid"

change: getpid > /dev/null || $exec -p "$pidfile"
to:     getpid > /dev/null || sudo -u guacuser -- $exec -p "$pidfile"

Start guacd:
```
service guacd restart
```

Build guacamole-client

Install the client:

tar -xzf guacamole-client-0.9.11-incubating.tar.gz
cd guacamole-client-0.9.11-incubating

mvn package

Deploy webapp

Deploy:

cd guacamole-client-0.9.11-incubating

rm /var/lib/tomcat/webapps/guacamole.war
cp guacamole/target/guacamole-0.9.11-incubating.war /var/lib/tomcat/webapps/guacamole.war

#Check logging
journalctl -u tomcat

Two factor authentication

Guacamole supports TFA via Duo
Download the Duo extention via http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/releases/.

Verify the archive:

sha256sum -c *.sha
guacamole-auth-duo-0.9.11-incubating.tar.gz: OK

Create the GUACAMOLE_HOME/extensions directory, if it does not already exist. We have a symlink from /etc/guacamole to /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole.
```
cd /etc/guacamole
mkdir extensions
```

Copy guacamole-auth-duo-0.9.11-incubating.jar within GUACAMOLE_HOME/extensions.

tar zxvf guacamole-auth-duo-0.9.11-incubating.tar.gz
cp guacamole-auth-duo-0.9.11-incubating/guacamole-auth-duo-0.9.11-incubating.jar /etc/guacamole/extensions
chown tomcat. /etc/guacamole/extensions/

Restart Tomcat:
```
systemctl restart tomcat
```
Follow the documentation at https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/doc/gug/duo-auth.html

Install a new guacamole-server

This was based on the 0.9.10 version.

Install dependencies. I'm not recording sessions, so i don't need ffmpeg.

yum install cairo-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel uuid-devel freerdp-devel pango-devel libssh2-devel libtelnet-devel libvncserver-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel openssl-devel libvorbis-devel libwebp-devel libtool dejavu-sans-mono-fonts.noarch liberation-mono-fonts.noarch

Download the source code and SHA sums from: http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/releases/0.9.10-incubating/

Verify the source code:

sha256sum -c *.sha
guacamole-client-0.9.10-incubating.tar.gz: OK
guacamole-server-0.9.10-incubating.tar.gz: OK

Compile the server:

tar zxf guacamole-server-0.9.10-incubating.tar.gz
cd guacamole-server-0.9.10-incubating/

autoreconf -fi
# No SystemD services yet...
./configure --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d --prefix=/opt/guacamole

make
make install # as root

Create a non root user:

useradd -c "guacamole user" -M -s /sbin/nologin guacuser
mkdir /opt/guacamole/run
chown guacuser. /opt/guacamole/run

Edit /etc/init.d/guacd:

change: pidfile="/var/run/$prog.pid"
to:     pidfile="/opt/guacamole/run/$prog.pid"

change: getpid > /dev/null || $exec -p "$pidfile"
to:     getpid > /dev/null || sudo -u guacuser -- $exec -p "$pidfile"

Enable and start guacd:

chkconfig --add guacd
service guacd start

Install Tomcat

Install pacakges:
```
yum install tomcat
```

Enable and start Tomcat:

systemctl enable tomcat
systemctl start tomcat

Build guacamole-client

Install required packages:
```
yum install maven
```

Install the client:

tar -xzf guacamole-client-0.9.10-incubating.tar.gz
cd guacamole-client-0.9.10-incubating

mvn package

Deploy webapp

Deploy:

cd guacamole-client-0.9.10-incubating
cp guacamole/target/guacamole-0.9.10-incubating.war /var/lib/tomcat/webapps/guacamole.war

#Check logging
journalctl -u tomcat

Install reverse proxy

Install nginx:
```
yum install nginx setools
```

Change SELinux boolean:

setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

Configure the reverse proxy, create /etc/nginx/conf.d/guacamole.conf:

server {
  listen       443 ssl http2 default_server;
  listen       [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server;
  server_name  _;
  root         /usr/share/nginx/html;

  ssl_certificate "/etc/pki/nginx/server.crt";
  ssl_certificate_key "/etc/pki/nginx/private/server.key";
  ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;
  ssl_session_timeout  10m;
  ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
  ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

  # Load configuration files for the default server block.
  include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;

  location / {
  }

  location /guacamole/ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/guacamole/;
    proxy_buffering off;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;
    access_log off;
  }


  error_page 404 /404.html;
  location = /40x.html {
  }

  error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
  location = /50x.html {
  }
}

Enable and start nginx:

systemctl enable nginx
systemctl start nginx

Configure users

Create directory and file: /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole/user-mapping.xml. See example in /root/guacamole-client-0.9.10-incubating/guacamole/doc/example/user-mapping.xml. Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<user-mapping>

 <authorize username="user"
            password="md5pass"
            encoding="md5">

   <connection name="example.com">
     <protocol>ssh</protocol>
     <param name="hostname">example.com</param>
     <param name="font-name">Liberation Mono</param>
   </connection>

   <connection name="ssh.example.com (SSH)">
     <protocol>ssh</protocol>
     <param name="hostname">ssh.example.com</param>
   </connection>

   <connection name="vnc.example.com (VNC)">
     <protocol>vnc</protocol>
     <param name="hostname">vnc.example.com</param>
     <param name="port">5901</param>
     <param name="password">vncpassword</param>
   </connection>

   <connection name="win10.example.com (RDP)">
     <protocol>rdp</protocol>
     <param name="hostname">win10.example.com</param>
     <param name="port">3389</param>
   </connection>

 </authorize>



</user-mapping>

Change owner and rights:

chown -R tomcat. /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole/
chmod 600 /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole/user-mapping.xml

Create a symlink to /etc for ease of use:

ln -s  /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole /etc/guacamole</code
  * Restart tomcat:<code>systemctl restart tomcat

Additional configuration

List fonts for use with SSH / Telnet

You can list fonts with:

fc-list :spacing=mono
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-BlackIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Black:style=Black Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-LightIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Light:style=Light Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/liberation/LiberationMono-Bold.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Bold.otf: Source Code Pro:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Regular.otf: Source Code Pro:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Medium.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Medium:style=Medium,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-MediumIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Medium:style=Medium Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/levien-inconsolata/Inconsolata.ttf: Inconsolata:style=Medium
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/c0611bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Light.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Light:style=Light,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/liberation/LiberationMono-Italic.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Italic
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/c0419bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Black.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Black:style=Black,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-ExtraLight.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight,Regular
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-BoldIt.otf: Source Code Pro:style=Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-ExtraLightIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro ExtraLight:style=ExtraLight Italic,Italic
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Oblique
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/cursor.pfa: Cursor:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/liberation/LiberationMono-Regular.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Regular
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/c0583bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-SemiboldIt.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Semibold:style=Semibold Italic,Italic
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/c0582bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch:style=Italic
/usr/share/fonts/liberation/LiberationMono-BoldItalic.ttf: Liberation Mono:style=Bold Italic
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-It.otf: Source Code Pro:style=Italic
/usr/share/fonts/adobe-source-code-pro/SourceCodePro-Semibold.otf: Source Code Pro,Source Code Pro Semibold:style=Semibold,Regular

Troubleshooting

If the application won't start, check for leftover PID files in /opt/guacamole/run.

Table of Contents

CentOS 7, Guacamole: clientless remote desktop gateway

Upgrade

Upgrade server

Build guacamole-client

Deploy webapp

Two factor authentication

Install a new guacamole-server

Install Tomcat

Build guacamole-client

Deploy webapp

Install reverse proxy

Configure users

Additional configuration

List fonts for use with SSH / Telnet

Troubleshooting